The View From My Back Porch

I would like the Public to be aware of a grave and serious public health risk and a threat to all of us, and yea, even unto the Nation itself. There is an abundance of Dogma Droppings lying around and I am getting really tired of stepping in them.

What are Dogma Droppings? They are the term we use for certain statements and ideas that are commonly equated with the byproduct excreted by a male bovine. What sets them apart from each other is the fact Dogma Droppings smell worse, lasts longer and accumulate in an exponential manner. They are all over and you cannot scrape them off your shoes easily.

Examples of Dogma Droppings that can be found lying around right now:

A.) The United States is a Christian Country

What? Was everybody asleep in Civics Class in High School? This is a country where you are free to practice your religion. That’s it. None of you religious psychopaths can claim this country for your own. It is a country where a heck of a lot of Christians decided to settle and practice their beliefs as what they feel is God. But no one has given them the ownership papers. This place belongs to all of us. Christians, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Hindus, Native Americans, Believers in the Wizard of Oz or the Grand Wazoo, or any other permutation that you can fabricate to assist us in making one’s life seem a little less futile as it has a tendency to become from time to time and we need to get some answers to those questions we ask of ourselves. "What is this all about and what do I have to do with it?"

One Other thing. Who made GOD Christian? Last time I looked the Supreme Being was non-denomonational. You know Christians claiming the Supreme Being as their own and no one elses is just a slight bit presumptive, don't you think? Also one other flash for you. Jesus was a Jew not a Christian. I always have been of the opinion that She was Black and Jewish.

So come on Evangelicals prove me wrong.

B.) It is a Christmas Tree you idiot.

Now this has gotten to be a stupid argument. It is a Christmas Tree and not a holiday tree, a seasonal tree, a tree of lights or anything else you want to call it in order to be Politically Correct and it does represent the Christian Religion. For my whole life the Christmas Tree was a very big part of the year. People changed under its influence. It was a great time of the year and I am Jewish. We had a Menorah for our celebration of Hanukkah. Both holidays are at about the same time3 of the year. It was like one big Judeo/Christian Party. We have not changed the name Menorah to the “Seasonal Candelabra” so we do not annoy our Christian, Islamic and Hindu neighbors, so why should the Christians have to change the name of the Christmas Tree? Oh yeah and by the way, Christians, I got a flash for you. You’re celebrating the birth of a Jew.

Recently the New York City School District banned the Christmas Tree or the Cross in its schools because it was religion based. The Menorah and the Crescent and the Star that sat alongside the Cross were considered not to be a religious influence! If they are not religious symbols, what are they? Logos?

C.) Having a Manger Scene on Public Property is a Violation of Church and State and it is a Christian symbol or an insult to others.

Will someone please get a life? The Manger Scene in case you all forgot was basically a group of Jews bringing a Jewish child into this world in the depths of poverty and political turmoil. There were no Christians at the Manger of that I am sure. There were no Christians at the time. But in this one scene there is a common bond between the three religions that believe in the same God kind of. Here in lie the stories and teaching of the Jews, the Christians and the followers of Islam. All three evolved from the same Beginnings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So you folks and them folks and us folks over here are all Kin in a way. Doesn’t that shed an interesting light on it?

If you feel uncomfortable when you see it a religious symbol of any sort that does not correspond with your thinking don’t look at it. You may have deeper problems than you think. Seek professional care immediately and try to remember the quote of Robert Heinlein “What is one man’s religion is another man’s belly laugh’.

Next Year we will not Celebrate Hanukkah, instead we can celebrate the 1st Annual Jam for Yahweh in partnership with the Christmas Tree Lighting Committee and a Special Appearance by the 10 Commandments. Now that ought to make everyone happy. Happy Kwanzaa.

Oh yes one other observation about Manger Scenes that I want to note. How come many of the characters portrayed wear crosses at Jesus' birth? Did they know something that they were not letting the kid in on? Or were they willing to sacrafice this child right from the beginning to start a cult? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm?


D.) Stem Cell Research is killing unborn babies.
This one is too bizzare to even think about, let alone comment on. The fact of the matter is this. Within our present day technology, methods have been developed to provide what would otherwise normally be impossible opportunities for good loving adults that want to be parents more than any thing else in the world to conceive invirtro. This is a good thing most reasonable people might tend to agree. Smiling Moms and Proud Papas, doting Grandparents, birthday parties and all of that. Pretty smart of us as a species to come up with that.

Now that Little Billy or Mary or whoever are in the world and everyone’s maternal and paternal instincts are sated everything should be just wonderful. It is at this point the Dogma Droppings hit.

To make one going, giggling, spitting up child, crying wonderful gift of life that a newborn child is it takes thousands of attempts at fertilization of the human egg by millions of human sperm and from this you end up with a great many Zygotes. Thousands of chances to become more of those going gurgling bundles of tax deduction than are actually needed, but we in our wisdom at least realize that we cannot bring them all into the world. So, consider what is done with these other chances of life. Why they are flushed down the sink, run through a garbage disposal. They are destroyed. That protocol the Right to Life Folks has no problem with. What they have a problem with is that some scientists believe that this is a good place to harvest the cells they need for research to cure many diseases, like diabetes, Alzheimer’s, spinal cord damage, repair injuries that now can leave a child or adult paralyzed or worse and in time generally do some possible serious good for all of humankind before we flush them down the sink. Seems fair to me. But there are those that are dead set against this and would rather these cells be destroyed because in their minds it is better to kill a viable organism in the sewer than it is to utilize the good that it can provide before we dispose of it.

E.) America Is Evil

I want to use the line, “You can’t handle the truth.” but that isn’t fair. I think people do not want to know the truth. Hungry children. Air too foul to breath. Bone numbing poverty. Genocide. We as a people do not want to know about that. But we had better wake up people! In the world those conditions are the Rule not the Exception and the folks that live in that are getting sick of it and want their share. We as a nation do not want to know about it and have it upset us during dinner and distract us from the nationalism that they want us to have as our new savior and religion, so the government lies to us about it. Ever wonder why they have the Save the Children Advertising on in the Middle of the Night and not during dinner hour?

These desperate people in our minds and truly do become terrorists and followers of what we consider evil people. Need I remind everyone that Terrorists founded the good old USA? We taught the world how to go about achieving self-determination. They are just copying our Forefathers techniques. To quote the Sage of the Okefonokee Swamp, Pogo, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” What are we as a nation guilty of? Allowing people all over the world to dream of Freedom, but not helping them achieve it unless it is in our interest and according to our terms.

I once had a well-educated, well-bred delightful woman say to me that she found the plight and the poverty of the boat people of Hong Kong, “Magical”. She said it innocently with no malice and no realization of what she had actually said as we dined on our steaks, and she was serious. But she reflected a view of the world that we are all taught and some actually believe what they are taught. I will never forget that comment. Nor will I forget the Hong Kong Boat People that I spent many evenings with.

We need to accept a large helping of the responsibility. If for no other reason than we change our view of the world and maybe they might see us different.

We are not evil as a people. We are just dumb. We are in the dark as to why people do not have what we have. Lately, I have been hearing a lot about how evil we are from people that live here citizens and foreigners. Well to the foreigner that are here that see us as evil, but not evil enough to go back to their countries and straighten out their own affairs. I say don’t let the screen door hit you.

How about those Americans that do not like it here? Go on down to the beach in Florida and borrow an inner tube from the Cuban, Haitian or Jamaican that just risked their lives and the lives of their family to get to American no matter what the cost to find a better life. Then just sit your rear end down and let it dangle like shark bait and paddle off to where you think it is better. You are taking up the space a useful person who wants to be here could use.

All I ask is that you clean up after your Dogma please so others can enjoy the country without this din of stupidity that seems to be broadcast from every sector, factor, belief, paradigim, focus group pundit, politician, conservative, liberal and comedian. I would enjoy a few moments to think about all this myself now. Thank you. Your cooperation is would be appreciated.

I would like the Public to be aware of a grave and serious public health risk and a threat to all of us, and yea, even unto the Nation itself. There is an abundance of Dogma Droppings lying around and I am getting really tired of stepping in them.