Atrocities Of Morality – Six Years Later
Deborah Venable
07/09/08
A
little over six years ago I wrote an article called “Atrocities Of Morality”
for another website. That site no longer
exists, but the article has wound up on many other sites on the internet, so I
guess it struck a chord with a lot of folks.
As I was reading over it again, I noticed that it really could have been
written yesterday and it would be even more apropos than it was back then.
Given
the fact that more and more Americans seem to be having trouble defining moral
limits, and that includes persons in positions of governmental power, judicial
power, and especially parental power, perhaps we should once again draw
attention to a few things that scream for a moral justice.
Here
is the article as it was originally published:
Atrocities Of
Morality
Deborah Venable
03/04/2002
Excuse me while I take
a little break from ranting about the socialist agenda in America – just a
little break – call it a re-al-it-y break if you want. Does any of the massive group of “victims”
in this country, (and no, I’m not talking about us patriots who are victims of
rights grabbers), have any idea what goes on in most of the rest of the world
right now? I hardly think so or they
would not be trying so hard to make America over into a country that would
easily fit in with barbaric regions on the rest of the globe.
You stomp around and
demand things like “reproductive rights” and scream at Christians who try to
tell you that it is wrong to kill your unborn babies. Hey, I’ve got a great idea – go to China! You won’t be accosted by Christians over
there, and the government will pay for your abortions. You won’t even have to ask! Why put up with the atrocities of morality
here?
You get so sick and
tired of seeing churches and Bibles and God everywhere you look, and you can
find somebody spouting that Christianity stuff on at least one channel on
television if you really look for it - not to mention all the music that
contains some mention of God or Heaven or Angels that bombards your poor ears
if you happen to land on a Christian or country radio station. There are better places to be my friend –
take a long hike to one of the many countries that hunt down those dastardly
Christians and slaughter them in any number of grotesque ways. You can even watch them do it – or better
still, pick up a hammer and nail a few yourself! You don’t have to take it any more!
If you hear one more
story about some yahoo trying to say a prayer in a classroom where your child
goes to school you are just going to lose it!
How dare they think they can get away with wasting your little darling’s
time talking about something called “faith” – or even the patriotism
stuff. It’s just gone far enough! Not to worry – there is a place for
you! Try one of the many countries that
take your little darlings off your hands and place them in much better learning
environments. If you’re REAL lucky they
will choose the little lad or lass for “special” education in the fine art of
terrorism and teach him such wonderful subjects as martyrdom or jihad or
murder. You can be so proud!
This whole sexual
morality thing that Christians keep spouting has really got you fed up. Everyone should be free to take sex – all
kinds of sex – wherever they find it, and to heck with people trying to talk
about commitment and responsibility where your own body is concerned! If you are a man, there are many places in
the world that will welcome you with open arms. You can have all the sex you want anywhere you find it and nobody
is going to tell you to stick to one woman (or boy)! If you are a woman and you want numerous sex partners without
interference or morality speech, buy a ticket elsewhere – just so you aren’t
picky about consent for all that sex.
Got to be careful about that adultery thing in some places too – they
get pretty nasty about that one! But
I’m sure you’ll be happier some place where Christian morality does not exist.
If you hear one more
red-necked patriot spouting off about the right to keep and bear arms you’re
going to go nuts! These idiots who want
guns available all the time are putting your life in danger and the government
isn’t taking the guns away from them fast enough. Your kids aren’t safe either, and just the other day some little
bugger pulled a toy gun on an “unarmed” group of kids! If that doesn’t prove how wrong those gun
folks are you don’t know what will!
Those folks keep talking about individual responsibility and morality
and saying things like, “God helps those who help themselves.” You’re right! But you don’t have to take it, buddy! Hop a boat for one of the many places where guns in the hands of
law-abiding citizens isn’t a problem!
The only criminals that get shot in those places are taken out by the
“troops” that march around keeping everybody in line. Try not to stand too close to the criminals though, because the
troops don’t take time to aim.
I want to personally
apologize to anyone who thinks they have to stay here in America and put up
with an old system founded on the belief in God and moral rules. Those predominantly “white” folks who risked
everything they were and everything they had to establish America under those
rules are certainly not worthy of your “suffering” here instead of any of the
places of your origin or your ancestors’ origin. Those places where God hasn’t gotten a big toe hold yet are
probably much better suited to your needs, don’t you think? Just watch out for all those places that
have NOT abolished slavery yet or you might get a first hand knowledge of it
instead of having to imagine how cruelly your ancestors were treated here so
many years ago. But, I’m sure you could
go there and see how long it takes to wipe out slavery and suffering and
injustice WITHOUT any Christian or moral influence.
As for me and mine, I
think I’ll take my chances with God and Christians and morality after all. I also have enough to sense to know that in order
to keep them I’ll have to have my guns handy – so I’ll continue to do that
too. But y’all have a nice trip to your
new reality, and don’t forget to write!
Now back to the
regularly scheduled ranting against the socialist agenda that wants to strip America
of God, Christians, morality and guns!
Well,
that was how I saw it then and it’s pretty much gotten worse since. Nobody seems to have taken me up on my
suggestion to “just say ‘no’ to morality and MOVE.” Instead, they have continued to shove the rest of us around while
dangerously restricting our rights to a moral environment.
Okay,
let’s think about that for a moment. If
the socialists, liberals, progressives – call them what you will – in this
country are so concerned about “rights” then they must not be allowed to ignore
my rights because, quite simply, my rights were here first! I was born with them – all those rights that
are enumerated in the Constitution. Those
rights do NOT include having aberrant behavior accepted as normal, having secular
tyranny overrule Judeo-Christian morality, having foreign interests overrule
national security, or having historically communist philosophy become the law
of the land and the benchmark for education in this country!
I
challenge anyone to tell me that I have exaggerated anything at all in that
last paragraph.
American
logic must be on a very long sabbatical somewhere in the nether regions of
those barbaric locations that exist a long way from this self-governing
republic of ours, for even the conservative among us have allowed such
illogical changes to take root and grow that it threatens everything America
used to stand for!
I
was asked recently to explain my views on homosexuality, since the previous
discussion subject had been about the California Supreme Court decision to
allow same sex “marriage.” The
question was asked by a conservative friend who is mostly of the opinion that
everyone should “live and let live” and that discriminating against anyone is
wrong. My simple answer to the question
was and has always been this:
homosexuality is NOT normal human behavior, therefore, such special
consideration for abnormal behavior is ludicrous.
On
the discrimination issue, I pointed out, as I have many times before, that I am
discriminated against every day of my life because I still engage in the simple
pleasure of smoking. No one worries
about fairness to me on that one, do they?
Even many self-proclaimed Libertarians call me “stupid” and denounce me
as an “addict” with a “nasty” habit that infringes on everyone else with my
“dangerous” behavior. I have a very
limited number of places I can even “indulge” in this “awful” behavior, and if
I still had small children I would have to be worried that one day they would
be forcibly removed from my home simply because I am a smoker.
This
behavior modification against smoking has occurred in roughly the same time
period that homosexual behavior has been “let out of the closet” and defended
to the hilt by law and public opinion.
Think on that one for a minute.
Back
in the days when a much larger percentage of the population smoked, there was
not a “health care crisis”, fewer people were on the government dole, the
overall mental health of Americans was much better, children were not routinely
put on psychological drug therapy, and there did NOT exist an “obesity crisis”
in this country. Alcoholism and illegal
drug addiction had not taken the huge toll on such a large percentage of the
population of this country either.
Given the way that “junk science” works in present day America, I could
draw a defendable conclusion that cessation of smoking has caused many of the
negatives mentioned here, but I am not the fool that some folks take me
for. Nor do I buy into the “junk science” of improvable theories.
I
vividly remember when I began to lose many of my rights of “choice” such as my
choice to smoke and my choice NOT to wear a seat belt, and I predicted that
things would only get worse from those points on. At the time, folks didn’t take me seriously because smoking
cessation and wearing seatbelts saves lives after all. I never argued with those positions and I
still don’t, BUT I also know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the reverse is
also true.
I
look around me and see fewer people “addicted” to tobacco and more people
addicted to mind altering drug therapy, alcohol, legal prescriptive medications
for all sorts of disorders that have to do with normal life stresses – both
physical and mental. I see far more
unhappy individuals than satisfied ones, and societal pressure to conform
overruling individual choices for simple pleasures. I see less tolerance, not more, for simple differences of opinion
on so many important issues, and I see a demand for people to “come to the
center” of discussions on moral philosophies.
I
see thousands of dollars in fines being paid by people, like me, who refuse to
conform to a restrictive seatbelt law, even though seatbelts can sometimes
kill, and folks still ride around on “crotch rockets” that can exceed speeds I
would not dream of going in a full sized vehicle. No one has outlawed skydiving, scuba diving, car racing,
motorcycle sports, off road vehicles, and any number of other “dangerous”
sports that people can legally choose to participate in. But I cannot legally choose to get into my
own car that I bought and that I pay license fees on, along with the fees I pay
for my driver’s license, and that I am forced to buy insurance for – not to
mention the fuel and upkeep costs I pay and the taxes on the fuel that pay for
the roads I drive on – I cannot legally make a choice to drive that vehicle
without “buckling up” and I am called “stupid” if I do not.
Choice
is legally supported in our society today only if it is a choice to kill unborn
babies, flaunt a perverted sexuality, or teach children that these things are
normal.
We
are all supposed to feel like a great victory was won this week for individual
freedom and the Bill Of Rights because only four out of nine of our Supreme
Court Justices still cannot properly interpret the Second Amendment. Those very same justices plus one more think
that the most heinous of all crimes, child rape, should not be punishable by
death because that would be “cruel and unusual.” And let’s not forget that those same five think that our
Constitutional rights should be extended to foreigners who have been caught
trying to kill our soldiers on the battlefield or American citizens on our own
soil.
Now
if I’m exaggerating here, y’all just feel free to stop me and tell me where I
am wrong!
Another
unpopular view of mine, along with my position on smoking and seatbelts, is
that ALL so-called “gun laws” are unconstitutional. All of the thousands of gun laws in this country have been
instituted in direct defiance of the Second Amendment. Every last one of them! Every free citizen of the United States has
the right to keep and bear arms.
Period. Gun laws, though, have
whittled that list down quite a lot, and none of the various support groups see
it that way without placing “certain restrictions” on the right.
We
are not “innocent until proven guilty” in this country with such an
attitude. We are guilty until we prove
(or buy) our innocence through licensing or registration. Those who are locked up for criminal or
insane acts may never own a gun – even after they are “freed” by whatever
system of judgment and allowed to walk the streets with the rest of us. Hey, if we can’t trust ex-criminals and mental
patients to carry guns, why do we “free” them in the first place? That is a joke!
Then
there are all the restrictions on what kinds of weapons we may possess. Last time I checked, the government has
access to ANY kind of weapon, right?
Remember, the whole purpose of the Constitution and that Bill of Rights
was to protect the people from the government they were forming – NOT the other
way around!
It
is morally telling when the Democrat candidate for president has defined his
future decisions on filling Supreme Court vacancies with a pledge NOT to select
anyone who would seek to overturn Roe vs. Wade. The decision to legally allow abortion in this country was
perhaps the turning point for moral relativism. The frontal assault to the basic right to life for the most
innocent of humans blew all other rights out of the water, broke the nation’s
moral compass, and overturned all rational logic as we had previously known
it.
If
we are ever able to “bind up the nation’s wounds” and recover a true sense of
decency as human beings, we must return a moral compass to that court of nine
lifetime appointees. If we do not, we
can expect the foundations of our government to eventually crumble and another
revolution to ensue.
I
wrote the “Atrocities Of Morality” as a roadmap to point out the dangers of
such collective thinking that has claimed too much power in America. “Atrocities Of Morality – Six Years Later”
is just a reminder, and think of all the changes that have occurred in those
six years. The one good thing is that I
think more and more people are actually aware of those dangers because they are
paying closer attention. It remains to
be seen if that will be enough to affect any positive changes.