Coming home after the foiled anarchist/terrorist plot in England was a sobering experience. I rarely check bags, but I checked everything but my purse and my big book of Sudoku puzzles. It was unsettling being away from my belongings, but it was nearly traumatic thinking of some crazy men assembling a bomb from hydrogen peroxide and other household products. I made it home safe, thank God. I’m glad Scotland Yard and the other participating British agencies were able to arrest these religious psychopaths who want the entire world in a constant state of fear. I’m trying to figure out what man-made organized religion has ever done positive for the rest of the world. An innumerable number of people have been killed in the name of God. Why? Can’t there be multiple paths to Paradise? Can’t Heaven be a place where all the righteous people are not just the “religious”? Can’t humans experience spirituality and God in their own way without fanatics and zealots screaming at the top of their lungs about their religion is the Way, the Light, the World? The brilliance of the USA is we are a secular society. We have freedom of religion. Everyone is FREE. We are not hindered with a theocracy. We are not stuck in the quagmire of sexual repression. We are not oppressed by a thoroughly corrupt government. We are blessed with the basic necessities of life. The poor here have food, water, clothes, TV, telephone, cell phones, and tons of other materialistic goods. And even if they don’t have everything I’ve listed they have so much more than poor people in so many parts of the world. I wish I had the solution to fighting an enemy that does not reside in one country, does not have a concrete goal or no centralized leadership. But, what I do know is I will continue to fight to keep the USA as free as the founding fathers dreamed, because it may be one the last bastion of freedom on earth.
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”
---Thomas Jefferson
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