BUT HOW MANY REALIZE IT?
by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet
(Oct. 11, 2011) — During the height of the Cuban missile crisis, some Air Force General went along with the original schedule and launched a missile to be tested. JFK’s response was “There’s always someone who didn’t get the message.” Well, that same thought is just as applicable today in regard to referring to Islam as a “religion,” thereby allowing the adherents tax benefits and others which normally wouldn’t awarded.
Americans definitely have an affinity for people who are persecuted, but in the case of Islam, it’s the other way around, as it is with the followers of Islam who persecute any who are unbelievers. And then we have sophomoric minds who have the nerve to compare the Old Testament with the Quran, which would be the same if you were to use a Ford Model ‘T’s’ owner’s manual to fix a problem in a GT-40.
There was once a time when people went to school to acquire the ability to think and reason for themselves.. Classic literature was stressed because the writer’s philosophy couldn’t be easily explained in a “See Spot run” format. A good example would be the novel “War and Peace,” where that old Russian belief in Fate was highlighted. Kafka, representing Germany, succeeded in explaining Socialism and Fascism; England had “The Once and Future King” explaining everything, and the Americans had the biographies of visionaries that made America distinctly unique, such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington Carver.
Higher avenues of education today seldom stress the oblique, well-rounded mind, but rather, the very narrow limits of a particular field of study. Examples of specialization can be found in any college course book that teaches “molecular biology,” whose areas of expertise would just add another year if the reading of the classics were required, as in days of old. It used to be that after college, people would go on an adventure to “round out one’s education,” as it were. Some went to Europe, some traveled to Nova Scotia or the “Far West,” while others joined the Navy to “see the world.”
Today we see examples of cut-rate public education by easily-accepted “facts” without question. How many times have we all heard “I read it in the encyclopedia” or “I saw it on the Discovery Channel,” as if the oracle of today is without fault? Too many, I’m sure. America is paying the price of assembly-line education, where the first two years of college is the same today as the last two years of high school yesterday. Americans haven’t gotten smarter; we’ve “dumbed down,” and for proof, all you gotta do is look at what’s in the White House today.
And now, after years of playing the tune of ease and instant gratification, America’s debt to the Piper is due. Our down payment is in the White House, and the remainder of the fee is already in Congress, more than willing to trash the Constitution by allowing millions of Muslims in our country, a distinct group of people with a political agenda that is diametrically oppose to our Constitution. It is impossible for Sharia Law (respect Islam) to coincide with any other law. Allowing Muslims within our borders is the same as allowing poisonous snakes in your home: a smart people wouldn’t have them. Some of us are smart. Some of us can read the writing on the wall, while others are left on the platform, scratching their heads, and wondering “What happened?” A bit of advice? Don’t get caught watching the train slip away.
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