Picture Problem

Picture one:

Here we apparently have the Obama seed from which some sort of tree has blossomed. Under its branches we can see people from different backgrounds coming together holding hands in peace and harmony.

...really?

Perhaps it's just me but I think what this country needs is a reformation back to its roots and not a new seed planted in the ideologies of some man bringing "change." That's why I'm a conservative, I desire to conserve what this country was founded upon and not progress away from it.

For example, the Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." From this we can infer that our country was founded with three specific propositional truths: God exists, He created man, and there are moral absolutes. Yet, today it is unconstitutional to speak about God, creationism, or moral absolutes in public school. This is because secular humanism has become the new founding basis for our society. The Humanist Manifesto declares that "the universe is self-existing and not created"; that "man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as the result of a continuous process"; and finally that "the nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernal or cosmic guarantee of human values." This is the only politically correct position to speak of and base public policy on. It is of no coincidence that most liberals are for secular humanism as the basis for this country. Secular humanism is the antithesis of what this country was founded on and liberals wish to liberate this country from its roots and make it anew.

I'll pass. Two people ate from that tree a long time ago. It wasn't good.

Picture two:

I can't say I know much about Michael Moore seeing as that I don't know anything about him. Yet, I'm going to go ahead and judge his movie by its poster. From what I can gather we have some CEO holding a giant bag of money hidden away in one hand, and a tiny American flag waving in the wind in another. Through capitalistic principles Mr. CEO is becoming rich by exploitation of the middle class. Oh, and we also have Michael Moore who isn't buying any of it. Apparently he also smells really bad because the rest of protesters in the background don't want to be anywhere near him.

What's the problem here and what is the solution? I guess it's that Mr. CEO is a greedy son-of-a-bitch and he needs someone to come in and regulate how he runs things.

Problem solved.

But is it? Think hard about what was the real problem. It wasn't capitalism, it was greed. Mr. CEO may not have that large bag of cash anymore but he's still going to be a greedy son-of-a-bitch. Why? Because I'm a greedy son-of-a-bitch. As are you. We're all greedy sons-of-bitches. It's in our nature. Moving the money bag from this person to that person isn't going to change anything. It's just going to cause the money to be held onto by whichever greedy son-of-a-bitch gets his hands on it.

There is no political system that is going to lead us out of our problems. That's because the problem isn't political, it's moral. We no longer base ourselves in what this country was founded on, we instead teach a system of thought that is its polar opposite. The logic that follows is simple: if there is no God and man is merely the product of time, matter, and chance, then there isn't any reason why I shouldn't go ahead and be that greedy son-of-a-bitch; life is meaningless, I have no moral law to abide by, and you have no intrinsic worth that I should respect.

I guess our children have been studying Secular Humanism 101 in school and are applying its principles to their daily lives.

Son-of-a-bitch.