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Blasphemers! – With Some Fresh Ideas about Achieving World Peace – By
Professor Truth This writing is not intended for atheists, though if you are
one, you may gain a new "slant" on your way of thinking. Rather, this
study is for the consideration of agnostics and the believers of all
religious faiths, whether structured or personal. This writer, as well
as (I imagine) most persons who will read this, believes in God in a
most personal way; and all of us are aware at one level of
consciousness or another that in the midst of our earthly Paradise of
things have come The Blasphemers, who lay waste to all that which is
good or Godly – this in the very name of God, in order to separate
humankind from the personal safety and freedoms which we feel are the
natural rights of all things mortal. To understand this occurrence of
blasphemy against God and how it came about, and also to reason and
speculate as to how that which in the minds of humanity is rightfully
God’s may now be returned to Him, we need to examine and review our own
selves and our own history and our own personality types, and how we
severally and collectively have allowed – at times encouraged – such a
blasphemy to impact on our lives. The following is an account of Man’s
beginning realization of God, and of how all things which are mortal or
impermanent appear to be linked to Him inextricably.
The beginning of belief. In the early morning, we see the orange sun rising and watch the women in their "morning things" slowly stirring about preparing to wake their families for the new day. We smell the aroma of cooking somewhere (and maybe some coffee brewing). We hear the birds: some singing or chirping, others squawking. We see the multi-hued clouds hovering. We feel the tingling breeze and watch the leaves and the tree limbs gently waving, or violently waving, depending on the strength of the wind. Our hair is tossed. In the afternoon on a stretch of sand, we
feel and smell the incoming waves, watch and listen to the laughing
swimmers and admire a pretty bikini-clad girl sunbathing, her mate
massaging sunscreen onto her soft body parts. Our eyes then focus on
adjacent rock formations, "eager", we fantasize, for a human footstep
to stand on and climb up them.
In the evening, the multi-lit city and the
shy moon (if there is one tonight) together cast a pale gleam onto the
sand in front of the sea, which is now roaring, and our eyes draw
upward and see the natural "lamps" of any clear evening, and identify
two or three galaxies above us from among infinite other stars and
planets seemingly drifting onward and outward forever.
— And, in all of this, with a logic we imagine as valid as a mathematical formula, we see, we feel, indeed we know, that all of these things are centralized by God, and are a part of God (capillaries of His being, as it were); and that this Embodiment, or Brain, which unites all things as One is a God of love. Indeed, almost none of the great philosophers and scientists of human history have looked on these things and said, "There is no God". At the same time, in experiencing all of
these natural phenomena, we understand at once that they and we are all
mortal, or transient, and that one day all must "pass away". The leaves
and limbs of these trees, and the trees themselves, will one day die
and fall awkwardly. These birds not long hence will lie on their backs
with their fragile stick-legs turned skyward, never again to stir, sing
or fly (perhaps to be eaten by cats). The bodies of the morning women
will be entered into graves or crematoriums, and joined by their
husbands and their children and their grandchildren. The suns of the
sky will one day burn out and the planets will darken. The pretty girl
in the bikini will turn gray, her skin sag, and her musical voice
deepen while her belly and bottom bulge forth boldly before the sad
dying. In no circumstance, however, do we gain any sense that God is
either vindictive or vengeful, or that He would kill or torture any
living thing, much less babies and children and innocent women and men,
as He has been accused of. He only allows our dying.
With this awareness of mortality and the
transient nature of all things, there rushes up in our beings a
conviction, nonetheless, that there is never truly an end to
anything that possesses awareness; indeed, perhaps, not an end to anything
physical. And we seek assurance, or reassurance, and knowledge from
those better informed, more exploratory than we are, or perhaps more
intelligent than we are, that what we feel (and therein "know") about
God and the immortality of the natural universe is really true; and we
seek an explanation for everything that is. The poet, Walt Whitman, in
his Leaves of Grass expresses these feelings eloquently for all
of us:
"Was somebody asking to see the Soul? See! Your own shape and countenance - Persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. All hold spiritual joys, and afterwards loosen them: How can the real body ever die, and be buried? Of your real body, and any man's or woman's real body, Item for item, it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners, and pass to fitting spheres, Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of death." Enter religion. From the beginning of human existence, it
seems, there has always been someone who fancied himself (it
was never a woman!) to possess a unique knowledge and experience of
God, and who (conveniently) recognized that if only he could persuade
everyone else to believe as he did, he could control them and assume
full power over them and their lives and the lives of their families.
These persons, and the leaders who "followed" from them (who
definitionally have set about curbing or curtailing human freedoms and
safety), we will call "Religionists". Religionists may be
apostles either of a specific religion, or of a specific political
ideology. Either way, they invoke the name of God in the pursuit of
their own ends. Certainly, in order to both get and maintain control
over the minds of their believers, the religionists have established
teachings, creeds and commandments on the pretext of helping their
subjects to live virtuous lives and be sensitive to the needs of
others. Some of these teachings are good, and some are wise (nearly all
are violated by their own creators, however, and often blatantly so).
We must make no mistake about it, in any case: Religions, and most
particularly religions of Middle Eastern origin, are all about control.
They are not about helping others! In fact, they are
mostly about violence or the report or threat of violence.
Following on The Religionists are the
collective groups of persons we will call "The Moral Guardians".
These "agenda carriers" break down into five classes – the four
dangerous, or potentially dangerous, among them being: preachers,
evangelists and crusaders; the "Sheep"; politicians and
government leaders; and news media. Finally, there is one
good class which now begs to be legitimized in order to protect human
freedoms. We will discuss the Moral Guardians in a moment, but let us
first examine the myths that compose religions, and the evil and
violence which are inherent in those of Middle Eastern origin
particularly.
The debunking of Middle Eastern religions. Any educated person alive at
this moment knows that God did not create the heavens and the earth in
six days and rest on the seventh. Adam and Eve (if they existed at all)
were not the first man and woman. No one has ever lived up to 900
years. The earth was never wholly flooded at any time. And God, we
daresay, never commanded Abraham (knifepoint duly raised over his son,
Isaac’s, body) to traumatize a child for life by ordering him slain by
his own father as a "test" of faith. However, as "compensation" for
Christian and Jewish believers, there came to be the Ten Commandments.
Don’t these compose a beautiful and fair prescription for how one
should live one’s life virtuously? Unfortunately, no! First,
they were "intended" only for the Hebrews of long ago. Second, their
value is diminished, in large measure, by the crimes which they do not
prohibit, as we will reveal below. (If the reader has been
conditioned that these Commandments are sacred and holy prescriptions
for how one is to live a good and Godly life, or indeed suspects that
our speaking in this way about them is itself a blasphemy – Please
note: all information touching on historical facts and accurate, or
previously inaccurate, translations regarding the Ten Commandments that
follows comes directly from professional theologians, and can be viewed
in its entirely at: http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_10co.htm,
or, if you’re reading this in hard copy, just go to the
home page: http://www.religioustolerance.org,
and key into the site search engine the words "The Ten Commandments".)
NOT PROHIBITED by The Ten Commandments: 1. Killing or murdering anyone outside one’s own group. (Abortion is not discussed.) 2. Killing or torturing either people or animals. 3. Lying. 4. Swearing. 5. Sex by a man
with a woman either before marriage or with a single woman after
marriage. (Homosexual relationships are not discussed.)
6. Any type of
sexual relationship by women (except that, if the women are married or
engaged to be married, men having relations with them are to be
punished. The idea of women doing something sexually "wrong" was
unthinkable when this Commandment came into being. In practice, though,
"offending" women were generally stoned to death.)
7.
Stealing. PROHIBITED by The Ten Commandments: 1. Worshiping any God except Jehovah – First Commandment (though we are sure that there is only one God and He does have other "names"!) 2. Making or worshipping idols – Second Commandment, reading: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." (Note the threat of violence and murder towards innocent generations to come.) 3. Falsely swearing in God’s name about the
truth of one’s statements or intentions, or for any malicious purpose
or in magic –
Third Commandment (a good one, but one which does not prohibit swearing
in the sense of "cursing").
4. Working on the Sabbath – Fourth Commandment (referring actually to the seventh day of the week, which in those days was Saturday. This instruction is, of course, impractical, and is violated by nearly everyone, "believers" and non-believers alike). 5. Dishonoring one’s father and mother – Fourth Commandment (a good one, which can be expanded to include providing for the needs of all elderly persons unable to care for themselves). 6. Kidnapping a person to sell him or her
into slavery –
Eighth Commandment, "Thou shalt not steal", which referred to this type
of "stealing" only. (Note that slavery was acceptable, but providing a
new slave was not, and that no other type of stealing is prohibited.).
How relevant, then, are these Commandments to
real living? (Note that these do not differ very much from any one
Middle Eastern religion to another except that Islam has nearly four
times as many – owing partly to each Commandment’s being more specific,
and partly to there being additional "rules" to follow.) And how useful
indeed are these Commandments in helping mankind to be "Godly"? The
truth is that, combined with other "Old Testament" Biblical passages
(Christian, Jewish or Islamic), the Commandments converge to validate
murder, torture, brutal female circumcision (Islam) and all manner of
evil actions against persons regarded as "enemies". If, prior to now,
you have asked of yourself the following question:
"Why doesn’t the U.S. President or the British Prime Minister just say to the terrorists who "martyr" themselves (in their own eyes) by killing innocent persons, "Far from being martyrs and reaching Heaven in this way, you are destined by your own Scriptures to burn in hell for these heinous crimes"? The answer is because it simply is not
scripturally true! What is true is that the Christian Church, for one, has
committed genocide many times in its history, exterminating such groups
as the Cathars and Knights Templar. Starting in the late 15th century
and continuing for 300 years, both Protestants and Roman Catholics
rounded up heretics and suspected Satan worshipers, and the church
executed many tens of thousands of these – often by burning them alive.
The Crusades against the Muslims provide yet another example of the
misapplication of religious doctrine. In recent times, not to mention
the ongoing intra-Faith Christian conflict between Catholics and
Protestants in Northern Ireland, Serbian Orthodox Christians organized
a major religiously motivated genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, largely
against Muslims.
This violence, and the blasphemous depiction
of God as a murderer, begins with Hebrew Biblical scriptures. Joshua
and his army, for example, violated the "Thou shalt not kill"
Commandment (if it were to be taken literally) on numerous occasions as
he and his troops marched through Canaan, apparently with God's
approval. They were often ordered by God to commit genocide by killing
every Pagan man, woman, youth, child and newborn that lived in various
cities of Canaan. Numerous other scriptural passages also depict this
violence as attributable to God Himself, such as the following:
Exodus 12:29-30 : "And it came to pass, that at midnight the
LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn
of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive
that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh
rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians;
and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where
there was not one dead."
Joshua 10:40 : "So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed as the LORD God of Israel commanded." Deuteronomy 2:33-35 : "And the LORD our God delivered him before
us; and we smote him and his sons, and all his people. And we took all
his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women,
and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: Only the
cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities
which we took."
Can there be any wonder about the reason
terrorists at the time of this writing have begun to traumatize the
entire world? – all, we must say, through the hard-line religious
philosophy of "Believe as we do, or we will kill you!" Returning to Leaves
of Grass, we share Walt Whitman’s sorrow at such violence, just as
earlier we shared his awe over man’s natural universe:
"WORD over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world: ... For my enemy is dead- a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin- I draw near; I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin." Enter the Moral Guardians. In our depiction of the
blasphemous behavior of Religionists in carrying out their own agendas,
whether religious, ideological or (generally) both, those espousing the
Middle Eastern religions have been singled out, justly we feel, as
being the biggest culprits. Why this is, why the gentle, intelligent
and creative peoples of the Middle East have become so afflicted in
their unction to pay proper homage and reverence to God, and to lead
good and righteous lives, this writer is not well able to speculate
except that they (even more than peoples from other parts of the world)
have been both afflicted and brainwashed by the Moral Guardians. As
mentioned earlier, these Guardians (except for one worthy group) break
down into four dangerous, or potentially dangerous, classes: the "Sheep";
the Preachers, evangelists and crusaders; the Politicians
and government leaders; and News media: the controllers
of public opinion. We will consider each of these now.
The "Sheep". The category of "Sheep" includes both
those who are strict religious believers in whatever they have been
taught and merely wish to do well and have others do well; and those
who wish to condemn the behavior of others as a means of keeping the
censorship "spotlight" off themselves. Thus a matronly old woman
observes a young unmarried man and a young unmarried woman kissing in
public, and clucks her tongue (nothing in the Christian or Jewish Bible
to strictly forbid such an act, of course, except that it is perceived
as irreverence towards God). She, the Sheep, was herself married,
perhaps, because she "had to be". Likewise, a middle-aged man rants
about a politician caught having sex with some woman other than his
wife, hopeful that what he did with his neighbor’s daughter in her barn
won’t be found out. The Sheep group, in fact, will condemn just about
anything that looks like "fun" (whether it harms anyone but themselves
or not), but concentrates on sexual matters, probably because it’s more
exciting, we suppose. In the case of Sheep, one must always be careful
not to walk unclothed, freely as a dog, out of the shower room into the
garden to enjoy the sensations of a fresh breeze and warm sunrays on
bare skin – because God made a gross mistake when He created man!
The human body is obscene and
must never be displayed! Of course, it is generally allowable that
depictions of violence, torture and killing may be shown in movie films
(Why not? "God" did such things, didn’t He?), but there most assuredly
must be no nakedness or sex in films because this is sinful! Such is
the impact of Religionists and other Moral Guardians on the thinking,
attitude and behavior of "Sheep", as "Sheep" do not even try to think
for themselves or to investigate things and find out what is really
true and what is not. They know what is right and what is wrong because
"God" (some Religionist or other) said so.
Preachers, evangelists and crusaders. These inflame the passions – often very violent passions – of both persons already believing in the creed being extolled and those whose other creeds make them their sworn enemies. Even gentle missionaries often achieve an effect exactly opposite of the one intended. They generally are respected for their sincerity, but condemned for their rigid "ignorance". Preachers interpret scriptures in ways that make their congregations feel good (and Godly) while inhibiting independent thought, and editorializing on various behaviors of the "unsaved". (In the case of Muslims, this pinpoints the "Great Satan(s)" of the Western world.) These Moral Guardians make the "Sheep" possible, and enfranchise them as censors. Politicians and Government Leaders. To attain, and keep, power,
politicians and government leaders often use religion and "the will of
Almighty God" as pretexts to get what they want, whether they
themselves are religious or not. If hindered on the way to their goals
by people of other Faiths, they inflame the passions of their peoples
against the hindering groups, therein setting loose in righteous frenzy
all of the "sheep", preachers, evangelists and crusaders discussed
above.
News media: The controllers of public opinion. No news reporting, whether it be current events-focused or scriptural, is unbiased, however much reporters may wish it to be. Thus, though the persons composing this group are, as a whole, innocent of deliberately exacerbating or provoking the anger of their listeners or viewers when adverse events unfold against their group, their jobs depend on making it clear enough "whose side" they are actually on. Recognizing this, some editorial shows are added which attempt not to show bias. Unfortunately, none dare to impart the "guidance" needed to enable the audience to put all matters into perspective, with the end result that local public opinion becomes hardened and galvanized against "the others". Thus, though the news media do not deliberately inflame passions (generally), they make it easy for the other "Moral Guardians" to do so. Fifth, and finally, are The Proprietists,
the "good guys" among the Moral Guardians. These are those who, without
any religious agenda whatsoever, prescribe what is "nice" and
"thoughtful" to do and what is not, as well as what to do when other
persons are not so "nice" or "thoughtful" to us. We will discuss this
worthy group further in a moment.
We sense somehow, in any case, that a
prescription for good (and proper) behavior is needed. We may curse,
for example, but should not do so when it will be perceived by others
as rude and offensive. We must keep our word and pay our just debts. We
must not abuse others, or appear naked before others when, like
cursing, this will be seen as rude and offensive. In short, we must be
considerate of others at all times, while also taking care of
ourselves..
The Golden Rule: If one single rule were ever to
be adopted to guide, and indeed mandate, human behavior, if would be,
in the view of this writer, The Golden Rule:
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." What a magnificent rule, and consider its Source – Jesus, of the religiously violent Middle East! Scorned, indeed, was Jesus for advocating such heresy, including the concepts of forgiving one’s enemies, loving one’s neighbor as oneself; and (in reference to little children) … "As ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have done it unto me." This writer’s religious beliefs. I would like at this time, with
the indulgence of the reader, to outline my own religious beliefs: not
as a prescription for what you or others should believe, but as a
"shading" for some ideas that I believe might be effective in
eradicating religious and other bigotries from this world, and in
helping to establish peace among the world’s nations and peoples.
First, I perceive God as being a giant
"Brain" to which everything either material, radiational or animate is
intricately connected. I do not perceive God as being either
all-knowing or all-powerful. I believe the sum of what God knows is the
sum of what is knowable through all His connections with the physical
universe, in addition, of course, to the computer-like analyses and
discoveries emanating from that – a knowledge which humankind, in large
measure, has not yet attained to. God also cannot be all-powerful
because his creatures possess free will (to the extent that Moral
Guardians will enable this). I do believe that God answers our prayers,
but only sensible ones that, in their realization, will not, like
cutting off one’s own finger, cause harm to other members of the God
entity. I believe it is, or was, difficult, however, for God to answer
all such prayers, simply because there are so many of them! Finally, I
believe that God, before Jesus was born on earth, was incapable of
sensation, or of experiencing our pain, pleasure or emotions.
I believe that God sired a Son, Jesus, with
the mortal woman, Mary, and that after the death of this Son (when
Jesus returned half-man to reunite with the Full-God, His Father),
began for the first time to share in the feelings and emotions
of humankind. At the same time, with Jesus’ death was created for us a
direct "conduit" unto God, so that God could respond to prayers through
Jesus, and therein feel and know the need for the prayers, without
having to intellectually "consider" each one. I believe that Jesus
truly is the Son of God, and that Jesus was half-God and half-man. I
believe this, not because of what I read in the fallible writings of
scriptural reporters, but because of Jesus’ own behavior, which was so
uncharacteristic of Middle Eastern inhabitants in all their history
until His birth. "God is Love!" He proclaimed – a sentiment previously
unheard of in the annals of organized religions! I also believe that
Jesus is the Son of God because he was born knowledgeable of the
ancient scriptures and prophesies, a knowledge which he demonstrated by
"teaching the teachers" while still a child and just a carpenter’s
apprentice. Jesus was, of course, as "half-man", subject to some degree
to being affected by the violent teachings of the past; yet, as
"half-God", He transcended all of these and brought forth an
unprecedented message of peace to nations of people "starved" for this
new Word.
In summary, this writer’s "religion" (which
incidentally does include a type of afterlife "Heaven)" is all about Empathy,
Peace, Freedom and Fairness for all living creatures, and I would
like to propose some ideas on how we might attain these. Before doing
so, we must recognize that dealing with religions, religionists, moral
guardians and the many conflicts among them is no easy task, and we
might consider the words of Hans Küng, the noted German theologian:
"There will be no peace among nations without
peace among religions. There will be no peace among religions without
dialogue between religions, and no dialogue between religions without
investigation of the foundation of religions. There will be peace on
earth only when there is peace among world religions. There will be no
world peace without peace among religions, and there will be no peace
among religions without dialogue between religions."
We can only hope most sincerely, however,
that Herr Küng is at least partially mistaken, as we don’t believe
that any such "event" can ever take place per se! This writer
does believe, nonetheless, that the following ideas are possible, and
may achieve the same, or an even better, end:
Some Fresh Ideas about Achieving World Peace Part One First: The nations of the world which are, or seek to become, U.N. members must meet in a special session of the United Nations called The Establishment of a Just World Peace and agree on rules of proper conduct between and among all peoples and all nations. Each nation must come in with its own set of "rules" to propose, and the meeting must stay in session (not including rest breaks, sleep and meals) until an agreement has been reached, however long this may take. Should no 100% agreement be reached, additional voting will be held until an agreement has reached a 75% consensus, and this result must be accepted and followed by all nations. After that, the "Conduct Rules" will be empowered, and the U.N. will be authorized to act in accordance with them. All nations will be admitted to this session. Nations abstaining will be banned from U.N. membership until they have officially endorsed the passed Rules resolution. Second: All nations must then select, appoint or
elect an appropriate theological representative for each religion or
religious faction in their country to appear at a special session of
the U.N. Security Council, at a definite time and date set by the U.N,
in order to obtain the written consent and sworn compliance of these
theological representatives with the passed Rules, in the following
context: All theologians (meaning preachers, pastors, priests, monks,
evangelists, missionaries, etc.) may continue to preach, teach and
lecture on old scriptures as usual; but, in each session, must
emphasize and reiterate the U.N. passed Conduct Rules, requiring that
these be followed by their respective laities, or congregations.
(Actually, the theologians should be able to piece together snippets
from their own Scriptures to demonstrate that these Rules are actually
consistent with their established doctrines.) Theologians shown to be
in violation of this requirement will be pronounced "laity" by the
U.N., and the nations in which such offenses take place will be
required to appoint replacements who, likewise, will be required to
sign an acceptance of the Conduct Rules at the United Nations.
Countries which allow noncompliant theologians to continue in practice
will be issued warnings, and then permanently banned from the United
Nations if they fail to adhere to this requirement fully.
Part Two The United Nations must establish the following rules of procedure in the education of each nation’s children; for qualifying candidates vying for national office; for the conduct of scientists; for the conduct of the nations themselves; for the passing and enforcement of national laws; and for responsible and objective reporting by the news media: Education of children. Here is a role for "The Proprietists" (the "good" Moral Guardians), and that role must be much expanded. Currently, The Proprietists are the propagators of "etiquette", such as Emily Post or "Miss Manners", and despite their being limited, essentially, to social nuances, such persons as these have probably done more good for people in terms of how people should treat one another than all of the world’s religious preachings put together (if their followers really heed them)! All children must be taught Empathy by a
trained "Proprietist" (though we do hope a more fortunate descriptive will be found
for him or her!), and this should continue from age 6 throughout the
first 12 years of schooling.
Stories must be written for children of all levels illustrating the Conduct Rules in application, and, from these, assignments must be given impacting the children’s grades. One question per week relating to the Conduct Rules should also be given to the children, with the answer also counting towards their grades. Qualifications for holding national office: All candidates for national
office must pass a test in the native language of the office seeker
showing knowledge of the principles of governance; national and world
geography; and the current world situation, along with any history that
impacts upon it. The test must also affirm their compassion and love
for all persons and all living things, as well as their readiness to
adhere to the Conduct, and other, Rules of the U.N. All U.N. officials
must have taken and passed the same test, as well as an additional test
showing a comprehensive knowledge of the duties pertaining to their
positions.
Qualifications for scientists: Scientists must have training in the potential social repercussions of their endeavors, and obtain U.N. endorsement before being allowed to publish or present a discovery or invention which could potentially threaten or destroy humankind. Qualifications for nations: All nations must be forbidden to wage war unless attacked. Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) of every nation must be destroyed and never produced again. Verification of this must be certifiable, and failed verifications, or failure fully to cooperate in inspections therefor, must subject offending nations to a complete and permanent trade cutoff with any other nation. Nations must also subscribe to, and abide by, laws guaranteeing the legality of any action performed by individuals or groups which does not infringe on the rights of any other person or group. The human body will be judged not to be "obscene". No act by individuals or groups which is not harmful to others, or is harmful only to themselves will be prohibited or punished, except that they may be "censored" in the community by The Proprietists and the then somewhat more useful "Sheep". National laws: No laws infringing on human rights, as
defined in the U.N. Conduct Rules, will be passed or enforced. Persons
infringing on the rights of others, or harming, or potentially harming,
or killing others must be imprisoned for periods of time proportionate
to the seriousness of the crime committed – as authorized by U.N.
endorsement following one-time committee examination of the proposed
punishments for specific offenses. No paroles must be granted under any
circumstances. Willful murderers must be imprisoned for life.
Prisoners, including "lifers", must undergo training to make them
socially useful while incarcerated. All governments must provide for
the welfare of their citizens, including medical care. Persons
convicted of crimes may have their cases heard by higher courts if
their guilt seems likely but less than certain.
The news media: News media persons must ensure that reporting is done under the objectivity requirements of the U.N. Conduct Rules. The Conduct Rules to be proposed. All of us could formulate Conduct Rules, or "Commandments", if you will, that would deserve the consideration of an impartial United Nations. What is important, ultimately, is that the Rules must exist and be enforced, and that they are not keyed in to specific religions or are allowed to slip under the control of any Religionists or Moral Guardians except for the Proprietists. In summary, nearly all of us feel that there
is a God, and that our God is both loving and just. We are weary of the
blasphemy against both our God and humankind, which for many centuries
has been perpetrated by persons claiming to be acting on His authority.
We are weary also of being mind-controlled and having our natural
freedoms unfairly curtailed.
However, as human beings possess free will and may do
anything they wish to do as long as other people allow it, it is
imperative that the work we believe God Himself would do, were He on
earth to order it, must be undertaken by ourselves alone – a
realization eloquently and memorably invigorated by American President
John Kennedy during his Inaugural Address — "While on earth, God’s works must truly be our own." Let’s do them!
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