Bias and Prejudice

In America today, we are inundated with cries of tolerance and fairness. To be blunt: there is no such thing as fairness when dealing with other people. So, it's time for everyone, Christians and unbelievers alike, to stop pussyfooting around with the lie that tolerance is the key to a better world. The Romans couldn't coexist with the cultures they conquered, nor could the Medo-Persians, the Greeks, or the Babylonians. So if there is five thousand years of history already written on this subject that proves it will not work, then what makes us so arrogantly think that we can somehow become the exception to disprove the rule? Every person has his own opinions, and these opinions and beliefs shape the way every man lives his life. What really matters is the answer to the question, What Is Right? The principles and ideas that are right are all that matter. And it is worth fighting for them even if it means losing everything to preserve them. so, now that I have laid these basic principles, how are they relevant? In politics, everyone hears, and seems to want, bi-partisanship. When I cast a vote and my candidate wins, I don't send him to the legislature to compromise. I send him there to stand for my beliefs, even if it gets him banned from the Capitol grounds. And if it does, he is not relieved of his obligation until removed from office or his term expires. In religion, there is the "big-tent" idea. That all religions are equal and we should all come together under one roof because in the end all religions lead to the same place . . . Pish posh! Christ said, "I am THE way, THE truth, and THE life." He is exclusive in His claim and He leaves no room for any other exalted human or organism --- not the Pope, not Mahomet, not Buddha, not the Earth, not anything nor any one can be co-equal with Him. So does that make me racist, or any other undesirable appellation? Yes. Everyone, including me and you the reader, makes assumptions about other people based on financial, educational, ethnic, personal and employment background, just to name a few examples. For example, which one do you want taking your test for you, the Asian kid, the Hispanic kid, or the Black kid? So with all this, allow me to motivate you to stop pretending to be just and equitable because you let others run your life for you through the threat of slander. Find someone looking to give away a spine and get yourself a spine transplant so that the starch in your shirt isn't the only thing holding you up!

Why Should They?

In a recent conversation with an old acquaintance at breakfast,I realized why so many unsaved people want nothing to do with Christianity. Most often, Christians are some of the most hypocritical, spiteful, back-stabbing people one could ever hope never to meet. But when,or more appropriately "if," these same Christians go on visitation, they expect to be welcomed with open arms at every house they visit. It does not take a brain surgeon to realize that this high-handed arrogance and these inconsistent vices are a major reason that the Church of today is so ineffective and unsuccessful at fulfilling the Great Commission. The Apostle James said, "Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh" (James 3:12). Now, I am not railing against every church, nor am I calling out every church member. I personally know many fine Christians at whom this article is not aimed. But sadly, this number is completely dwarfed by the number to whom I am speaking. It seems that most Christians are content to imbibe what the world has to offer, so long as they make it to Sunday morning, Sunday night, and possibly Wednesday night services.This equals 4 hours in a 168 hour week, of which 112 hours are spent awake. Never, ever, will 4 hours balance much less counteract the effects of 168 hours spent eating, sleeping, living and thinking like the world. And because most Christians have this mentality just described, they are ignorant of God, the Bible, fundamental doctrines of Christianity, how to defend these doctrines and their own beliefs and they have no desire to change any of this. They are happy living in sin just like the world and the unsaved. Christ, in speaking to the Church of Laodicea,addressed this very issue in severely harsh terms. Revelation 3:15-16 states, "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16) So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." Christ is telling the Church at Laodicea that it would be better if they were flaming atheists determined to fight God all the way than to be hypocritical liars with no spine and no true allegiances. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the Church today, like the Church of Laodicea, isn't desperate for God's truth.

Why Every Kid in America Doesn't Need to Be Educated

Why do we spend so much money on education? I think a lot of people would answer, “Because educating our kids is important.” Really? Why? There are a lot of problems with teachers’ unions, whose goals are to make sure we get the least amount of education for the most amount of money, but the problems don’t start with them. Just look at the whole system we set up. We have 7.2 million teachers in this country and about 76 million students. Children are taught for 13 years in grade school, and many people want everyone to get at least 4 years of college on top of that. And what exactly do we get out of all this? If someone told me I was going to spend the next 17 years just studying, I’d expect at the end of it all to be Batman — a master of all sciences, languages, and martial arts. We’re lucky if our kids come out of this able to read and with at least one marketable skill. So what is our goal with all this? It’s like we envision a future where we all just sit around and be all educated and smart while robots or illegal Mexicans do all the real work. But do we really want all of us to be a bunch of educated people who never do anything useful — like the Obama administration but for the whole country? Anyway, it’s not going to happen. The future still needs people to cook, clean, and manufacture goods — and it doesn’t take a decade of education in math and science to be able to do those things. So why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars to make sure every fry cook at one point in his life knew what a gerund is? Is there a benefit to educating everybody regardless of actual need? We keep hearing that we’re falling behind the rest of the world in our average math and science scores, but let’s look at some of the countries ahead of us: Finland, Lichtenstein, the Czech Republic. I’m sorry, but did I miss all the huge technological innovations that came out of these countries? China is also ahead of us in test scores, but they haven’t even figured out how not to put lead paint on children’s toys. What exactly are high average test scores worth? If a bank teller can properly identify the parts of a cell, this helps society how? Or do we just think that kids sitting in classrooms throughout childhood makes them better people? Well, Jesus didn’t spend his childhood in a school, but know who did? Hitler. Now, obviously some people who are not budding genocidal dictators need education. Without our best and brightest being fully educated, how are we going to keep getting new features for our iPads each year? But is the most efficient path to that really to teach absolutely everyone and hope a small percentage actually retain some of what they’re taught? Why can’t we just identify the few kids worth educating and focus on them? We’ll find a few of the very best teachers — people who are a combination of Einstein and Master Splinter — and make sure our best and brightest get all the quality education they need. And we’ll teach them more efficiently, because if, after seventeen years of schooling, someone can’t hand assemble a warp drive, then we’ve wasted a lot of time there. As for everyone else, why don’t we just focus on what the average citizen actually needs? Everyone needs literacy, as you have to have some reading skills to be able to set your shows to record on a DVR. And then we should also teach everyone how to use Google, as that will cover science, history, and math whenever those come up. No reason that basic knowledge can’t be knocked off in a year for each kid. Now, I know some people are all worried about what all the kids are going to do if they’re no longer in school most of the year, because really, isn’t that most of what school is nowadays — something to keep kids out of our hair during the day? Here’s an idea: You notice how everything is made in China? It’s illegal in the U.S. to pay kids ten cents an hour to manufacture goods, so we just do that overseas instead. That’s idiotic. Why not have our own kids work during the day building plastic trinkets and whatnot? They’d learn useful working skills, come home nice and tired, and they’d actually appreciate earning ten cents an hour, because kids are stupid. So there’s our solution to the education problem: Instead of trying to make a lot of bad education for everyone when most aren’t even going to use it, let’s focus on making the absolute best education to give to the few who will. Everyone else gets to learn useful skills, and as a bonus we bring manufacturing jobs back to our country. And we save billions of dollars by telling all the teachers’ unions they’re fired and turning most schools into 24-hour gyms and office space. I think I just won the future for us. So is there any problem with this plan other than it being so intensely logical? ---this article was written by Frank J. Fleming. it is copyrighted, and is not original with me.---