Not adding my hot air to this fire.

These past 4 years we have seen rights violated, citizens killed by the very people who are sworn to protect and serve, but each time something like this happens people pray, riot or protest. But nothing changes, just the face of the next victim. Afterwards we all go back to our day to day lives with the hope that it's not going to happen to us or someone we care about. And then it happens again, If this is so important, why are we electing the same people to power? Why are still fighting over the same idiotic concepts? Why are acting the same way. How can you expect the benefit of a doubt when can't be bothered to give one. We want to say that it's mainly race, class, religion, gender or sexual preference, but it's simpler than we make to be. You can't just pray for an answer, you have to also look for one. You can't just protest, you have remove the policies and the people that cause you to protest. You can't riot, because that's what the opposition wants you to do. To act like savages, to destroy and stay blind to the world around you.  If you want change it must happen with you first, with conversations about the uncomfortable subjects, finding common ground with someone that's different from you and improving yourself. Not to become superior, but to gain balance and harmony with everything in your surroundings.  If you real change then you have to be flexible, you do not have to bend completely to your foe's will, but only make your foe understand that every gain made from you there will be a greater lose from them. Ture power does not come from a mob, a gun, or a shout, it comes from inside one's self.  I wrote this today because I'm not going to comment on what happened in South Carolina, there are too many opinions flying around on that. Go form your own opinions.

  

Of Prophets, Priests, Pastors, Politicians, Buyers and Their Sellers

Remember the pastor that asked the members of his mega church World Changers Church International to buy him a 65 million dollar private jet? Well looks like it may happen, WCCI has gone on record say that they will buy a G650 for the pastor and the senior staff of the church. What makes this so disturbing is how they are trying to justify the "Airplane Project"  also stating that their current plane is over 30 years and is in need of replacing. This proves that not only do they have too much money to invest their own outlandish needs, but that the church itself functions more as a for profit company. Which brings forth a question why aren't religious organizations paying taxes now? Now a days in the US organized religion has become a billion dollar business, being that most have tax exempt status. In some cases many have used this non-taxed wealth to gain influence on policy not just in a many small towns, communities and large cities, but also on Capitol Hill. Many have formed Non-secular Lobbying and Advocacy Groups to protect their own interest and influence policy. Meaning that they can use the large sums of money to get laws written for their own linear sense of morality or most cases their own benefit. A great example of this action are when certain bills come up vote that they feel imposes on their own believe system. Laws like Prop 8   in California, which most of the media advertising for this bill was backed and paid for by religious organizations and churches. Years ago in Tennessee there was a campaign to amend the state constitution for a state lottery that would fund a scholarship program. In Memphis the biggest vocal opposition came from the Methodist ministers and churches in the area. The amendment did pass and years later the state was able to put more funding in it's post secondary educational programs. Look at this way, everyone is going out to eat as a group, you have member of the group that's not paying for their meal and is trying to get everyone to eat at a certain place. Then when the group gets to the restaurant, the member then tries to order for the group and then dominates all conversations. After the meal is over the whole pays for that member's meal. That member of group leaves in their nice car while rest of the group wait's for the bus. That's how modern religion works in America now, the have money to buy jets, cars, real estate and politicians with donated money, but can't pay taxes. We you think about it, this seems more like a paradox. Church and state are suppose to be separate from each other, yet both use one another for control and gain over the vary people they claim to help.