Scientific Fact and Faith
We have done ourselves a disservice by allowing the fight for America's soul to be waged on the terms of our vocal but nonetheless fringe minority. In fact, we are the overwhelming majority of the American people. We believe in American exceptionalism, we believe in G-d and that this nation was created with His blessings, we believe in science and we believe that faith the two are inextricably intertwined. We must reclaim these truths and speak them boldly. And we must not delay another moment.
It is time we reassert that both fact and faith are always on our side. With respect to abortion, they use science and abhor faith when in fact both science and faith are on our side. We have the incontrovertible scientific fact that human life begins at the moment of conception, and as such is afforded by G-d the unalienable right to Life and the Constitutional rights to liberty and due process of law (both statutory and substantive), they argue that human life is not entitled to those because of the word "personhood" and that faith has no place in the law. Which requires more faith? Scientifically proven fact or the parsing of language to achieve a desired result? I suppose it depends on what your definition of the word "is," is.
With respect to education, we again have fact and faith on our side. Until the centralized takeover of education, schooling was a local/state issue. And until the Supreme Court manufactured the separation of church and state, the Ten Commandments hung in most every schoolhouse in America. The statistics don't lie. Before this liberalization of our education system, America's students were taught truthful and therefore patriotic version of American history, fostering a love of country that is curiously absent from the filthy, America-hating, flag-burning hippies who now infest America's higher education system. America's students were taught science and reason, and how to think critically. America's students performed with the best of the rest of the world's students in all disciplines. And America's kids weren't suffering from the scourges of: teen pregnancy epidemics; abortion and its physical and psychological repercussions; rampant STD's; teen suicide. Now, in fact, our students are taught to be oversexed, frivolous idiots who hate their country and the G-d who created them in His image, who just so happen to finish at or near the bottom of the industrialized world's test scores and capabilities in math and science. Which requires more faith? Believing that this is the strange of all coincidences? Or seeing the cause-effect relationship as being fatefully and factually inevitable?
With respect to the American medical/health/insurance (MHI) system, once again both fact and faith are on our side. Before the perversion of the American MHI through over-regulation, taxation, corruption of the health insurance industry through legislation, and other similar government-induced phenomena like the strain illegal immigration puts on the American MHI, American medical care was cheap and plentiful, generally paid out of pocket and budgeted for in advance. And insurance was cheap because it was only meant for catastrophic situations (like car insurance). Then government started mandating all sort of ridiculous procedures be allowed as a legitimate medical claim (think sex changes and breast augmentation), mandated that no interstate competition could take place between insurance companies (thereby stifling competition and artificially increasing cost/profit margins), and now we're debating as a country just 40-some odd years later that a single-payer health care system is worth a second look after the debacle of Hillarycare just 14 years ago. Is it just coincidence that the old model looks exactly like today's current car insurance model? Or should we mandate that car insurance pay for gas, tolls and routine maintenance? So what if single-payer is an unconstitutional and therefore illegitimate act by the federal government (though in saner times those were the only two things that needed to be mentioned to immediately halt such Marxist fantasies). Instead, we should debate them over the minutia in a 1000-page legislative Frankenstein in an effort to convince the American public of something that just four decades ago would've been clearly seen as the direct assault on liberty that it so clearly is? We should take their word on faith instead of looking at the facts?
Wake up, America!!!!!! The solutions to our problems are right in front of us. So let us set about the work of making our future, which coincidentally enough is just exactly where we began. We can do this simply by returning to G-d, returning to the Declaration and Constitution's founding principles, reclaiming science as our natural ally, and let us pray to G-d for the strength and courage to speak bold truths about them all.
It is time we reassert that both fact and faith are always on our side. With respect to abortion, they use science and abhor faith when in fact both science and faith are on our side. We have the incontrovertible scientific fact that human life begins at the moment of conception, and as such is afforded by G-d the unalienable right to Life and the Constitutional rights to liberty and due process of law (both statutory and substantive), they argue that human life is not entitled to those because of the word "personhood" and that faith has no place in the law. Which requires more faith? Scientifically proven fact or the parsing of language to achieve a desired result? I suppose it depends on what your definition of the word "is," is.
With respect to education, we again have fact and faith on our side. Until the centralized takeover of education, schooling was a local/state issue. And until the Supreme Court manufactured the separation of church and state, the Ten Commandments hung in most every schoolhouse in America. The statistics don't lie. Before this liberalization of our education system, America's students were taught truthful and therefore patriotic version of American history, fostering a love of country that is curiously absent from the filthy, America-hating, flag-burning hippies who now infest America's higher education system. America's students were taught science and reason, and how to think critically. America's students performed with the best of the rest of the world's students in all disciplines. And America's kids weren't suffering from the scourges of: teen pregnancy epidemics; abortion and its physical and psychological repercussions; rampant STD's; teen suicide. Now, in fact, our students are taught to be oversexed, frivolous idiots who hate their country and the G-d who created them in His image, who just so happen to finish at or near the bottom of the industrialized world's test scores and capabilities in math and science. Which requires more faith? Believing that this is the strange of all coincidences? Or seeing the cause-effect relationship as being fatefully and factually inevitable?
With respect to the American medical/health/insurance (MHI) system, once again both fact and faith are on our side. Before the perversion of the American MHI through over-regulation, taxation, corruption of the health insurance industry through legislation, and other similar government-induced phenomena like the strain illegal immigration puts on the American MHI, American medical care was cheap and plentiful, generally paid out of pocket and budgeted for in advance. And insurance was cheap because it was only meant for catastrophic situations (like car insurance). Then government started mandating all sort of ridiculous procedures be allowed as a legitimate medical claim (think sex changes and breast augmentation), mandated that no interstate competition could take place between insurance companies (thereby stifling competition and artificially increasing cost/profit margins), and now we're debating as a country just 40-some odd years later that a single-payer health care system is worth a second look after the debacle of Hillarycare just 14 years ago. Is it just coincidence that the old model looks exactly like today's current car insurance model? Or should we mandate that car insurance pay for gas, tolls and routine maintenance? So what if single-payer is an unconstitutional and therefore illegitimate act by the federal government (though in saner times those were the only two things that needed to be mentioned to immediately halt such Marxist fantasies). Instead, we should debate them over the minutia in a 1000-page legislative Frankenstein in an effort to convince the American public of something that just four decades ago would've been clearly seen as the direct assault on liberty that it so clearly is? We should take their word on faith instead of looking at the facts?
Wake up, America!!!!!! The solutions to our problems are right in front of us. So let us set about the work of making our future, which coincidentally enough is just exactly where we began. We can do this simply by returning to G-d, returning to the Declaration and Constitution's founding principles, reclaiming science as our natural ally, and let us pray to G-d for the strength and courage to speak bold truths about them all.
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