Religiosity...a continuum of ignorance, Part 2
Religious Lunacy by none other than Virginia's homebred looney...Pat Robertson
Robertson stated on television that the reason for Haiti's disaster was due to a pact made with the devil. If this does not constitute sublime ignorance or just plain old religious insanity, I for one, just don't know what does. I am curious as to whether Preacher Pat was a witness to this pact, to be so assured of its taking place...any proof of substantiation?
Virginia's Governor elect, Bob McDonnell comes out of the Robertson's cult... I just hope he doesn't ascribe to his (Robertson's) continued and bazaar notions...please Bob, say you don't. Nevertheless, we can only weigh in on your actions and deeds to know you no longer adhere to his meanderings about God and the universe, as the time in the past when he went to the New England states to pray away an oncoming hurricane to the region.
History does show that what became Haiti, overthrew the French that had it enslaved, led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, who was captured and died in a French prison in the Alps due to exposure. Now, as to how the devil played a part in what was considered a battle from slavery for freedom, simply does not make any sense, when hell is slavery itself... be it by physical force or religious ignorance. This stupidity happens to be the siren's call by all religious lunatics, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist or any other humanly devised belief that gets out of control and considers itself beyond Universal Authority...you pick a name. History also shows that when a people who are misled, preyed upon by leaders out for their own, such as Duvalier (aka Papa Doc) with religious chicanery such as voodoo, or any other religious concoction, they are bound to fall behind in civilization and become impoverished due to a lack of education from their destitute paths of doom and destruction...not God's fault nor the doings of some non-existent boogey man...in this case, Pat's version of a pact with the devil.
Religiosity...the real curse of Haiti, whereas education...the cure?
I assert this premise with information from the Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 13: 1914-1915; October 1915, page 396. I submit that Mr. Washington was a man ahead of his time in his economic outlook in America and in locations outside of the US, with Haiti as a prime example:
"The great difficulty is that Haiti, for many years has been exploited by (1) selfish politicians who have used the government merely to enrich themselves without seeking to help the masses of the people; and (2) by promoters from the United States and several of the European countries, chiefly Germany and France, and in lesser degree, Great Britain and Belgium. I mean white men. These adventurers, or promoters, or whatever name called, are largely responsible for stirring up the numerous revolutions that have disgraced and upset Haiti. The masses of the people have little interest in these revolutions, know little about them and care little about them.
And yet the Haitians themselves are largely at fault for their present unhappy conditions. They have been content to merely ape French civilization, content to get the veneer of French civilization without its substance and reality. The result is that while the bulk of the people---some 95 per cent, it is said---are ignorant, many leaders have been educated in France and other countries. Their education, however, has been unsuited for Haitian conditions. It has been an education that has fitted them to live and work anywhere except in Haiti."
Of course there is more to this essay, of which you can access under "The Booker T. Washington Papers". Booker T. Washington, I believe, was issuing a clarion call on a number of subjects based on economic values as well as a moral outlook for the future of this nation...one of the many matters facing the US as well as our global collaboration. I have taken the liberty of espousing on a few and would like to get input negative or positive as to the overall welfare of our destiny, if confronted by such potential devastation. http://infobuck.com/favorite_links.html E-mail input to infobuck@juno.com
Religiosity and the road to hell...
As with most roads paved with good intentions...a destination is revealed in Haiti's history and its current devastation. What lessons are to be learned from this saga in mankind's existence?
From religiosity sprang Haiti's infamous Papa Doc Duvalier, that controlled the Haitian people with his "Tonton Macoutes"...Creole for boogeymen. This fear that he (Duvalier) instilled into the people emanated from his devout belief in the religiosity of voodoo...a pagan African ritualism.
Just as with all "devils" that sprang out of religiosity, and those who see it but refuse to interfere as long as it's to their benefit, are likewise participants in the discipleship...be it Duvalier, Amin, Mugabe, or Bin Laden and a few more around the world. Civilization has to unite and strike blows as often as necessary to destroy these deviants, if for no more than the benefit of divine creation which is the human spirit.
Governor Bob McDonnell...no religiosity.
Tonight, the new Governor, Bob McDonnell, made his entrance speech to the Commonwealth of Virginia. It was pro-active and made a lot of good old fashioned common sense. I must admit that I am a strong supporter of President Obama, the former Governor Kaine, the democratic Senators Webb and Warner, but I believe this Republican Governor can bridge the gap with the program he's laid out. He doesn't at all appear to be the Robertson/Limbaugh religionist ideologue to the extent of which I thought he may be tainted as other right-wing Republicans. If he remains his own man, I believe Virginia has the promise for a solidly great future.
The Religiosity of Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh has commented often of his willingess to vacate the US and move to New Zealand and today the possibility of even considering Chile, the former roost of Dictator Pinochet, known for the broad strokes of citizenry murder via dictate. Limbaugh may have made these statements tongue-in-cheek, but in terms of his religiosity of raw capitalism at any measure, I would not put such moves out of the realm of possibility in order to protect his capitalist "pigskin" as any other corporate hustler might be enticed to do. You see, for you fools that buy into Limbaugh's pseudo-patriotic guff, you had better come to realize that Limbaugh is not looking out for God, country, or family but will stand by as the tin-god that he's come to be and watch this nation go to hell as long as he comes out on top. Oh, congratulations to Senate-elect Scott Brown, who as the Governor of Virginia, appears to be his own man unlike some of the Republican suck-ups to the altar of Limbaugh.
Religiosity and human confusion...
The hot button issue has surfaced again with the Super Bowl, and as a male I have no earthly knowledge that gives me any insight of what a woman has to undergo in making such a dreadful decision and frankly, I don't think any other individual, female or not, has the same insight of another female having to undergo deciding the life within her body...religious or otherwise. Yet, it is discussed back and forth, pro and con like commodities on the stock market.
I weigh in on this subject about life for I just left my doctor's office for my physical and all systems are go. However, I told him flat out, that when I am no longer productively functional, I am ready to punch out, because I hope to have a clear conscience about my "dirt nap" that I have given my God, my family, and humanity the best that I was able to offer. An old Navy buddy told me once in my much younger years that dying is easy, it's living that can be hell on earth, and for me to sit around watching grass grow would be what he's talking about.
Let's look at the role of religiosity in all of this where some beliefs and customs place a higher value on animals from rats to cows in being more sacred than human life and that life can be snuffed out because it's not considered an asset in a poverty-stricken community. In the western world, it's the belief that every human at birth is a sinner with an "original sin", and not too long ago would not speak out against the lynching of people.
Over the weeks, there has been an abundancy of young life being destroyed in their prime by the insane, the latest being a young two-year old of whom they had to find his remains. I wonder to myself, would it have been more merciful to end that young child's life in the cellular state, as opposed to his possibly suffering and being killed two years later fully conscious of his intolerable existence? God knows, I just don't have an answer and feel women individually are just as burdened with such a decision.