Opposing Religious Violence And Coercion

Many people, myself included, were taught to be respectful of other religions. Contrary to what some think, namely that if you do not accept what they believe, that means you are against what they believe. If you do not accept the divinity of Jesus, for example, because Jesus is not part of your religion, that does not mean you are against Jesus or opposed or hostile to Jesus. It only means most likely that you do not believe in Jesus because it is not what you were raised to believe. There are millions upon millions of people in this world that are members of religions where Jesus is simply not part of the religion. This includes Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and others. That is far different than proclaiming that any of these religions are hostile towards Jesus or Christianity. To not accept or believe in the Quran, or to not believe Muhammad is the final prophet or a prophet at all, does not mean you are opposed to Islam. It simply means this is not part of your religion and it is not part of what it is you were raised to believe. It is the simple fact that millions upon millions of people in this world, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, other religions, believe in different things than what is in the two largest religions of the world, Christianity and Islam. There was a time in history in which Christians would shove their religion down the throats of others, forcing conversions and murdering millions. Thankfully, Christianity has long ago evolved beyond that. Christianity actively seeks converts, unlike Buddhism, Judaism, Yazidis and a number of other religions, but it seeks conversions by choice, not by force. If Christianity still practiced forced conversions and expansion by force, this world would be drenched in even more blood than it is already drowning in. There are those in the Islamic world that impose their religion upon others by force. Free men and women do not want to live under religious domination and tyranny by any religion. That is why the most successful, productive societies in the world have separated church from state. Religious freedom is a basic human right. Islam has a long history of forcing itself down the throats of others and murdering millions that do not submit. Sadly, this continues to this day. Every minority religious community in the middle east and other places, including Christians, Bahais, Yazidis, are under threat or being destroyed. Muslims that practice and believe differently than the rigid, intolerant forms of Islam aggressively promoted by certain oil rich Muslim nations are also under threat. No one under the banner of their religion has the right to use force or harm members of another faith simply because of what it is they believe. Freedom against religious violence must be a universal right of all people, Muslims included. Opposing Islamic violence is far different than opposing Islam. All religious violence must be opposed, regardless of what religion is practicing the violence. But to pretend that hatred, violence, intolerance, incitement against Jews, Yazidis, Christians, Bahais, Hindus, Buddhists, and others is not running rampant and out of control in the Islamic world might be politically correct, but it is also suicidal. There are Muslims that proclaim that the whole world will be made Muslim by force(violent Jihad). This may be true one day, but if does happen, there will be no one left alive to see it. This is the age of nuclear weapons, and even without them, humans are already destroying this world.

Jew Baiting,Jew Hating, Final Thoughts

What the whiny Jew haters say abut Jews, and what is the actual reality, are completely different. The Jew haters, people that need a scapegoat, need to demonize an external group of people to blame for everything wrong in the world, are weak people that are incapable of taking responsibility for their own lives and for the religion or group to which they belong. It is easier to just blame the Jews and fulfill some pathological need to have a scapegoat to despise and hate. To respond to the endless accusations against the Jews, the endless Jew baiting, is a complete waste of time and just feeds into their pathology. Regardless of what is reality, and what facts are presented to this demented, often obsessive, unfortunately not uncommon bunch of cowards, little or nothing will change their need to hate. As with any group of people in the world, there are Jews that are good, kind, compassionate, generous, productive, industrious, hardworking, brave. There are Jews that are the complete opposite. What is consistent in the religion, culture and ethnicity that defines Jews is an adherence to the basic tenants of decency and humanity. Education is highly regarded. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you is the golden rule. The conspiracy theories can abound, because weak,cowardly people need a scapegoat, and Jews are humanity's oldest scapegoat. But as history has shown far too often, with or without the Jew, people find scapegoats to persecute, torment and kill. The world would be a far better place if every person, every religion, every group of people, instead of focusing on the Jew or another group to hate and scapegoat, manned up and focused on making themselves better, braver and more humane. Until that day comes, if ever, we need to stop kowtowing to the hate of others, ignoring it, running from it, giving it refuge and legitimacy when it masks itself in the form of religion or anything else.

Jew Hating, Jew Baiting

If you throw enough mud on a wall, eventually some of it will stick. Those who hate and want to persecute Jews endlessly accuse them of everything bad in the world they can think of. By demeaning and tarnishing the character of Jews, by reducing them to an evil caricature, it makes it easier to hate, to persecute, and to even murder them. People like someone to hate and despise, and that they can blame for everything. It does not matter if you respond rationally to the endless accusations against Jews, because none of this has to do with what is rational and factual. Weak people need scapegoats. Their need to be accepted and part of a group, no matter how hate filled the group might be, is greater than their need to be ethical. Manipulative, greedy men know all of this. They know that they can be rich, they can obtain fortunes, they can attract followers, in some cases huge numbers of followers, by Jew hating and Jew baiting. The Jew as the eternal scapegoat has caused centuries of blood and misery. Jew hating, Jew baiting, the domain of the cowardly, is humanity's shame that persists to this day.

The Jew And The Jew Hater

Everyday thousands, even millions, listen to sermons, speeches, lectures, internet videos, blogs, internet postings, films, and so on, telling them how terrible is the Jew. The rabid Jew haters go on incessantly, because obsessive people that are filled with hate or that are sadistic cannot control themselves. They cannot stop themselves. It does not matter what is the actual reality. This is about hate combined with obsessiveness, not about fact or truth. Millions of humans follow these demented hate mongering cowards. The followers are like mindless sheep eager to be told how to live, how to think, who to hate and how to hate, who to harm, who to kill. They listen and watch, willing to become homicidal robots. The Jew haters know their Jew hatred can make them rich and attract a following. Jew hatred frees them and their followers of individual responsibility and accountability. Theirs is a demented world where everything depends on having the Jew scapegoat to blame. No one questions, no one wonders, how a tiny minority still numbering in the millions(no matter how persecuted it has been, still survives) can all think and act alike. The Jew hater wants you to believe Jews are like one single celled amoeba, where every Jew thinks and acts alike. But it is they that acts as a mindless single celled entity, full of hate and homicidal rage. No matter what the world faces - wars, environmental disaster, deforestation, biodiversity collapse, nuclear bombs, radiation poisoning, failed nuclear power plants, massive oil spills, hurricanes, unemployment, economic collapse, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, terrorism, tornadoes, cyclones, land slides, disease, famine, typhoons, tsunamis, drought, flooding, poverty, hunger - these simplistic hate filled cowards will still obsess endlessly about the Jew and ignore all else. They revel in their self indulgent obsessive hatred. And we who choose to ignore their hatred, do so at our own peril.

Genocides Do Not Occur Because Of Lack Of Will, Only Lack Of Opportunity

There is a cancer in the human soul that has been with us for thousands of years. It is a weakness in the human spirit that needs a target, an enemy to despise, someone to hate. No matter what humanity has been through, it cannot shake itself of this cancer. We have seen it played out many times. The genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda, almost all killed by being hacked to death by machetes. The Khmer Rouge that murdered and starved millions. Other genocides, other horrors. The Congo, with over six million killed and millions raped. The rape and sexual slavery of girls and young Yazidi women and the murder of Yazidi males because they believe in a religion different than that of the Islamist fanatics that have overrun their villages. The Nazis and their allies, systematically murdering over 6 million Jews, almost every Jew in Europe, and millions more. When it was over, Europe laid in ruin, with over 50 million dead. Stalin, a mass murderer who exceeded even Hitler in the numbers killed. There is a long list of genocides, past and present, that goes well beyond what little is mentioned here. Despite all the horrors the world has seen, there are millions that will eagerly rape and slaughter every Jew on this planet if given the chance. The world does not learn from its genocides. It cannot free itself of its ancient and pathological Jew hatred whether it is the Jew itself or another minority to hate and despise and seek to destroy. The comfortable Americans drinking overpriced coffee or eating at some high end restaurant in a world removed from all of this might think that the world is full of goodwill and good intentions, and all that matters is their dog and dog park or some self indulgent pleasure. But there is enormous evil in this world. Millions that will eagerly murder, rape, slaughter if given a chance. Genocides do not occur because of lack of will, only lack of opportunity.

The Stock Market Vs. Real Wealth

Real wealth is not what any one person owns or does not own. The richest person, the poorest person, ends up in the same place. Dead, most often buried alone in the ground, or cremated, without a single possession. Real wealth is in the biodiversity and richness of the natural world, which is in terrible decline. The stock market, the financial markets, can reach all time highs. It will make many feel safe and secure. But it is not the true wealth of the planet. It is ultimately transient, fleeting, and meaningless. It is better to be poor in a rich world than rich in an impoverished world. Real wealth is something not respected and not protected, unlike the closely followed stock market.

Do Not Be Seduced By Fast, Mad, Easy Money

Save yourself a lot of time and grief and do not chase mad, fast, easy money. Sure,it exists for a few, and a few will win big. But most will lose, because fast, mad,easy money, like any kind of gambling situation, will reward a few and punish the many. And because the lure, the fast, mad, easy money, is seductive, many will fall for this trap. So turn off the t.v. and refuse to watch. Do not let yourself become seduced. It is too bad that gamblers, not workers, are the ones rewarded in today's world. But besides the moral considerations about lowlife gambling shows that pretend to be about investing, the reality is that being the slow tortoise, not the follower of any fast loud mouth, will reward most far better in the end. Do the research yourself. Passive dollar cost averaging investing in broad based low cost index funds will do better than most actively managed mutual funds, money managers, and stock pickers. It is a huge industry selling people on the idea that they will be better rewarded by following someone else's advice, which is simply not the truth. Do not throw your life away. Do not waste your time. Think twice before following television shows and fools that could care less how much you might get hurt.