I Could Be Wrong.

  I was having dinner with some friends when the conversation turned to something that bothered me. One of my dinner companions, whom I know is a Trump supporter, showed us an email that they received from their daughter, who in turn has a daughter with disabilities. It was a pretty nasty email blaming her mother, the Trump supporter, for all the cuts that Trump's Beautiful Big Bill will cause. The mother, of course, was insulted, and so would I have been if I had gotten an email like that, but the mother's reaction was that you don’t talk politics. I was taken aback by both the email and the mother's reaction. The daughter should never have sent the email, but the mother's reaction that you don’t talk about politics is also wrong. The fact people feel they don’t have to be accountable for the damage a candidate they voted for does seem to be like the voter just burying their head in the sand and not looking at what is happening right in front of them. My take on it is ...

  We are a country that has lost its faith. When I was young, we were a nation of great faith, and that faith is what made us great. It was our unwavering faith that helped put a man on the moon. It was our unwavering faith that conquered polio. It was our unwavering faith that men could still dream. It was our unwavering faith in our fellow man that made us feel there was nothing we couldn’t overcome if we worked hard enough together. We have lost our faith in science. When I was a teenager, we put a man on the moon. When I was six, I remember standing in line as we conquered polio. We conquered the Chicken Pox, Measles, and the Mumps. Medical scientific research is now under attack. Today, we turn our backs on the medical research that can save people's lives. Today, we are cutting much-needed research that in the future could save millions of lives. I remember when the only way we could talk to someone on the phone was by using a hard-wired device that was in our homes. Today,...

  Never once have I ever read in the Bible where Jesus said, “God bless the Roman Empire”. Never once have I read in the Bible of Jesus standing to pay homage to the symbols of the Roman Empire. Never once have I read Jesus combining his teachings with the Rule of the Roman Empire. I began thinking of that when I was watching the 4 th of July celebration on PBS, and there was a guy waving an American flag, and wearing a red hat that said, “Make America Pray Again”. That struck me as so anti-Jesus because that was what Jesus was not about. That is the last thing that the man that we call Christ would have been doing, in my opinion. Patriotic to a Government, whether it was Roman, Israel, or Jerusalem, was not what he was about. We have patriotic songs like the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and I have asked myself many times, would Jesus have marched off to war leading an Army? He was the man who let himself be tried by the Romans, did not offer any ...

  “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”. These words are the start of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. July 4 th, 1776, was the date of the final approval of our Declaration of Independence from the British Empire. In the Declaration of Independence, that is the paragraph before they list their grievances, that reads “ Such has been the patient suffrage of these ...