{"id":1540,"date":"2009-07-26T10:09:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/change-i-can-believe-in\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T15:47:08","slug":"change-i-can-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/change-i-can-believe-in\/","title":{"rendered":"change I can believe in"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not a member of a monolithic “other” group of people who are not LGBT, who are not pro-Obama, who are not secular humanists, who are not haters of George Bush and Sarah Palin (or is it Sarah Palin and George Bush in the hierarchy of hates?), who are not anti-Christian, who are not pro-Palestinian, who are not anti-Jew, who are not believers in single-payer health care systems, who are not believers in global warming mythology, who are not Malthusian<\/a> eco-doomsaying Luddites<\/a>, and who are not militant in their political causes.<\/p>\n

I and many others are not defined by what we are not.\u00a0 Do you hear that Margaret Cho<\/a> and all you jack-booted marching Leftists?\u00a0 Just because you get off on organized militant communities of like-minded believers<\/a> doesn’t mean the rest of us do!\u00a0 You’ve got everyone neatly sorted out into your camps and their camps, and you couldn’t be more wrong about the rest of the people who you have judged to be not like you–people who you know precious little about–the people who you lump together as the “other” who you constantly fight, marginalize, minimize, demean, insult, ridicule and degrade.<\/p>\n

Your insular moral code does not transcend the boundaries of your own interests.\u00a0 Oh, it translates well enough inside your own movement, it just doesn’t work too well in the broader scheme of interests that all humans share for survival, thriving, fair play, opportunity, and peaceful coexistence.<\/p>\n

The fact is you’re smart and this leaves us two possible explanations.\u00a0 Either you know full well that your moral code doesn’t work for all of humanity and you press on anyway with conscious intent to subjugate all of us non-believers, or, you have an incredibly sophisticated form of brainwashing that affords you the delusion that your relative morality really is applicable to all of humanity.\u00a0 Neither one offers much hope.<\/p>\n

Throw the broad brushes<\/a> away that you use to paint everyone you have judged to be not rainbow colored.\u00a0 They are needlessly harmful and divisive.\u00a0 If you want to get rid of hate in the world, stop hating people who are not like you.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Don’t pretend.\u00a0 Don’t wear one face inside your movement and another one outside.\u00a0 Stop pushing people away.\u00a0 Stop creating enemies.<\/p>\n

I know that your morality, your situational ethics, need an enemy to enervate your secular belief system.\u00a0 I know that your basket of philosophies don’t stand on their constructive merits, that they only seem reasonable under emergency conditions that overwhelm the voices of cooler heads.\u00a0 Still, you’ve got to start considering the rest of humanity beyond your own private interests.\u00a0 We’re all getting too old for the Left’s dead-end histrionics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The big totalitarians in history solved your moral dilemma by rubbing out the opposition by the hundreds of millions.\u00a0 Unless you plan to follow their example, you’d better snap out of it.<\/p>\n

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