There is so much I don’t understand

There is a great deal I don’t understand in this world. I don’t understand why many people do or believe as they do.

I can understand that many folks want and need a code of ethics to live by, and so many times that can mean an organized religion. Any given religion can be a balm to their “soul” for want of a better word, but when does that comfort of any given religion become a demand that everyone adhere to the rules that this small group of believers believes in.

This belief system that says all humanity has to follow one particular group of religious beliefs, can cause all sorts of problems. when the purveyors of this attitude attain political power, and move to implement specific religious commandments on a highly diverse society can and do conflict with other groups. In this way our society breaks into many groups into many small and conflicting cliques.

Hence we end up with folks that can simultaneously believe that it is mandatory to insist that unfertilized human embryos are “children” given the same rights as fully realized persons, and at the same time believe that supporting a newly born child is too much to expect. Of course I’m referring to the whole “Pro-Life” movement, it is interesting that many of the most of then people that hold this position refuse to support the social supports systems that could support the child far beyond birth. Personally I find this position unacceptable. It is a position that is supported by folks that call them selves “Christens” but I find the entirety of the position, decidedly UN-Christian.

These same attitudes seem to inform how the women of this country are seen and treated. Something in this society seems to see women as a population that needs to be controlled in every aspect of their lives, who they can associate with, who they can wed, when they and if they can have children.

While this country started with a firm history of slavery and a background of second or third class level of all women. To my mind this is not a model to go back to, we’ve progressed far beyond that point. This is to me the fallacy in “Strict Originalism” adopted by those that fear any progress. It’s all well and good to learn from history but generally don’t want to live there.

So we don’t have slaves any more, and while there are those that would return over half of the general population to the sixteen hundreds, that is not where a majority of folks live, the effort to establish what amounts to a theocracy can not be allowed to proceed we must take measures to keep this America, what is being proposed by the corporate kleptocracy is simply not a path for a healthy society.

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