our primary system is broken

 

I am happy that Jesse Jackson’s son won the primary in the 1st Congressional District, except I don’t think he really won.  (Jackson 1st in the 1st, June 28) How can somebody win an election when 3 out of 4 people didn’t vote for him?  How come nobody sees a problem here?  The whole election system is flawed, egregiously flawed, and nobody blinks an eye.  Now someone will say: yes, we should have a runoff?  But there were 17 candidates.  The top two candidates still got less than 50% of the vote. The last mayoral election in Chicago they had a runoff.  The two leading candidates the first time around each got less than 20% of the vote.   Four out of five people didn't vote for either one of them.  That was wrong too.  There are two options to correct this, but somebody please correct this. Ranked choice voting is trying to make headway in our country.  This is great in general elections when you have more than two candidates.  People are usually afraid to vote for who they really want, because they are afraid it will split their party’s vote and give the election to the other party.  So ranked choice voting is essential in general elections. We need something like that for primary elections, but there is another, easier options.  Ranked choice voting can be difficult to audit in a large election.  Too many ballots need to be looked at over and over. In primary elections, let voters vote for as many candidates as they want.  In the Republican race for governor that just ended, I would have been happy with 4 of the candidates.  When Trump ran for President, there were 17 Republican candidates, and I could have been happy with about 8 of them. That will tell you who really has the most support, and that is what you want in the primary.  When 3 out of 4 voters didn’t vote for you, no, you didn’t really win, no, we don’t know if you are the most popular candidate, and, no, you may not be the strongest candidate we could have. But we’ll never know.

Pride Month

June is Pride Month, so I tried to think of all the things that I’m proud of, but it wasn’t much.

I am proud of my country, but a lot of people are saying today that there is nothing to be proud of.  I think they just don’t know what we really have here.

I have a graduate degree, and I’ve written a few books.  I’m happy about that and maybe a little proud too.

I am a white, heterosexual male.  I know these kinds of things are important to a lot of people today.  I am happy that I am a white, heterosexual male, but proud?  That doesn’t seem like the right word.

I am proud of my two sons and their families.  I could just say that I am happy they turned out well.   But they are my sons, so I will say that I am proud of them.

But Pride Month wasn’t created so that people would reflect on things they are personally proud of.  It was created, because some people felt that they were being marginalized and even persecuted for their lifestyle.  Pride was their response.  They said that they are proud of their lifestyle, and they have been devoting their lives ever since to making their lifestyle more acceptable to people everywhere, which is certainly understandable.

But there are a few things here I find concerning.

It’s become popular for people and companies to show support for the people in this lifestyle by simply proclaiming PRIDE with all the appropriate colors, and I think we are sending wrong messages.  People and companies are even being pressured to celebrate Pride Month, and when they do that, they are not merely affirming their support and care for a formerly marginalized group, they are essentially applauding this lifestyle and not just the people.  They are essentially teaching our children that this lifestyle is commendable, noble, just, and good.

Everybody is insisting that we must all embrace this lifestyle without any discussion of its merits or demerits.  Even raising questions about it or wanting to discuss it is immediately derided as hatred, so we are never able to even talk about it. 

We have melded personal identity with lifestyle such that we can’t even discuss the lifestyle without that discussion being understood as a personal attack on the people involved.  There are probably some people reading this article who will call me hateful for even talking about any of this. 

If I scream at a person in the street who doesn’t see a fast-approaching car, I don’t hate them.  I am not even mad at them.  I have information I want to convey that they might find useful very soon.

Now here I think there is a slow-approaching car that is just as likely to hit them, and I don’t need to yell at them, but, yes, I certainly would like to talk to that person before it does.

The federal government has even weighed in on this issue.  It issued new guidelines on sex education for our public schools, beginning from the earliest ages.  It asserts that there is no such thing as normative sex, and all that the various forms of sexual activity are like flavors of ice cream.  One is not better than another.  We must try them all to see which one or ones we like best.  And we need to decide on this at a very young age.  There’s no time to waste here. 

We are asking our children, long before they have ever given any thought about having children of their own, whether they would want or should adopt this lifestyle.  One significant problem with this lifestyle is that it cannot create children by any of the normal means.  Only one partner in these relationships can be a natural parent to any children.  That means that we are intentionally removing one of the child’s natural parents from that child’s life.

This is not good, and we shouldn’t pretend that it is.

They also want us to teach our children that the doctors who assisted in their birth were mistaken to declare a gender for that child.  This is something that they must decide for themselves, and the sooner the better.

Schools all across our country are essentially trying to recruit students to this lifestyle when they declare that all sexual activity is equal in value.  Sex is not taught as a part of establishing families or even as an expression of love.  It is merely a pleasurable experience that children need to be taught about to avoid certain adverse consequences.  One form of sex can result in pregnancy, but we have a cure for that, so you need not worry about that, if you do choose to have that kind of sex.

And we are teaching our children with words of praise for this lifestyle long before they have given any thought to the long-term repercussions of their decisions. 

I don’t think this is wise or good for our children.  I think we can and need to do better.

This is not fair to our children and can even be considered a form of manipulation.  This must be removed from our public schools.  This is a lifestyle choice that only adults are fully capable of making. 

All the major religions that have talked about this issue have been uniform in their disapproval of it, though more and more church leaders today are becoming more accepting of the practice. 

At the same time, Christianity, for example, teaches us to love our neighbors as ourselves and to do unto others as we would have others do unto us.  All people are created in the image of God and are worthy of our love and respect. 

But it also believes that this lifestyle, in any of its myriad variations, is not what the Creator of all intended, and it wants to be able to have that conversation in our society.  It can be hard at times to discuss the lifestyle without the people involved feeling diminished. 

The problem is that people have been trying so hard to normalize this whole thing that Christians have been responding to the lifestyle where they would prefer being able to love the people first and talk about those things later. 

I can’t speak for every individual Christian here, but in general, it is the Christian who understands more than anyone else the intrinsic value of a human being and the importance that God puts on us to love our neighbors as ourselves. 

We wish we could talk in backyards with lemonade rather than with placards and protests.  But, yes, we want to talk.

Christianity and America

Christians are finally waking up and getting involved in politics.  For a long time, they were too busy working, raising a family, being involved in church activities, Little League, all kinds of kid and family things than to spend a lot of time in politics.  But they are slowly and finally waking up. 

For much of their history, they believed that to change or improve society, you change and improve individuals.  And since their mission anyway was preaching a gospel of personal salvation, they often didn’t concern themselves with more structural parts of society, like politics does. 

Now they are slowly seeing that you need both.  When society legalizes something, it becomes acceptable or more acceptable, whether gambling, abortion, drug use, and other things.  And they find that society, including in our public schools, is promoting values that Christians have problems with, and they don’t believe that is the place of the public schools to do that.

But the bigger question is: what is the place of Christianity in our society, or, more accurately, what is the place of Christianity in the United States of America?

Our founding document is the Declaration of Independence.  It speaks of rights and a creator.  These rights are not the natural rights of the philosophers.  They don’t need a god to give them, but the Declaration said that God did give them.  God created human beings, and He gave them rights. 

An atheist cannot believe in unalienable rights.  For an atheist, there is nothing higher than we already see.  An atheist can’t actually believe in any rights but what society decides to give to people. 

But the rights our country was founded on precede and supersede government.  And this is not a religious dogma here.  The Founders didn’t say that they believed that God gave these rights. They said that He did.  It was a fact.  As sure as the sun rises in the east.

But how did they know this?

Not all religions believe in this.  One major religion does not believe in a right to life, and several don’t believe in a right to the pursuit of happiness.  It was the Bible that informed our Founders about what God did.

But make no mistake.  Without Christianity, you don’t have unalienable rights, and without unalienable rights, you don’t have the United States of America.

In fact, John Adams, our second President, said that “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.” 

The First Amendment says that Congress cannot establish religion, which at that time meant that the United States could not have a State Church like, say, England has, where the Queen is the Head of the Anglican Church.

The court called supreme was wrong to say that our government cannot favor one religion over another or that it must remain neutral toward all religions.  Practically speaking, that removes all religion from public life, and many have insisted that includes theism as well. 

But then our country was founded on something that God did that affects everyone of us.  And we need to know about that.  We need to teach our kids about that.  In public schools.  And this is not some generic god that nobody believes in but the God of the Bible.

Be thankful for Christians and for Christians to be involved in politics.  Without them, you will lose your rights. 

Some will say that Christians are forcing their beliefs on other people, like, for example, in the case of abortion.  No, they are merely asserting that abortion is not a right, at least not a Constitutional right.  Like all other measures that our lawmakers decide, the public weighs in on an issue, and our lawmakers decide what they want to do.  Christians have as much a voice on an issue as anyone else. 

Christians will say that others are imposing their beliefs on them.  This is why freedom is messy at times, and why I would contend diversity is not a strength, but a weakness.  It divides us.  But that is an issue for another time.

the televised January 6 proceedings

I happened to hear bits and pieces of the January 6 panel on television recently.  (Jan.6 panel eyes July hearings, June 23)   Another person in my house was watching it.

I just have one comment that needs to be made.  This was like a court where the prosecution makes its case, calls its witnesses, but then there is nobody on the defense, nobody to cross examine witnesses, nobody to fact-check anything that was presented. 

I’m sorry, but this isn’t right, and we shouldn’t pretend that it is.

 

evidence of election fraud

A Tribune reader asks: Where’s the proof?  (New mantra: ‘Where’s the proof?’, June 23)

He’s asking, of course, about the proof that the election was fraudulent. 

I would say that the evidence is out there and compelling.  But you’re not going to find it on the major news channels or even in the newspapers.  I think too many people in high places like and prefer the results that we got, and if charges of fraud are true, the corruption has to run very deep, and there are too many of those deep people who are able to keep things quiet.

But start with the various anomalies in the election.  Elections are studied to death, and some things just don’t happen.

Like a Presidential candidate losing, yet his party gains seats in the House.  A lot of them.  Doesn’t happen.

A sitting President getting more votes than the first time and still losing. 

You can track the vote counts in real time, and in each of those swing states, there were vertical spikes in the counts.  That is technically impossible.  And then after those vertical spikes, I believe in all those states, all future votes had the exact same ration of Biden to Trump votes.  Statistically impossible.

People who worked in polling places testified under oath that they saw stacks of mail-in ballots with no creases that looked like they were ran off a copy machine.  They saw a lot of ballots that only had the Presidential race.  Where did those come from?

But there is video evidence of people stuffing ballot boxes with ballots in the middle of the night.  The same people going to, say, 20 drop boxes in the middle of the night and depositing large quantities of ballots

Start with the documentary 2000 Mules, as in, 2000 people stuffing ballot boxes.  The organization True the Vote is working now to get their findings out to the public.  It’s coming.  There are a lot of people who don’t want to hear any of this, so it’s not as easy as some of us would like.

 

 

Sex education and sextortion

The Tribune printed a strong letter urging strong sex education programs in our public schools.  (Weak sex ed leaves teen boys, young men vulnerable to sextortion schemes, June 23)

If all that our public school sex education taught was how to avoid being sextorted, that might be a worthy class that they could spend a half hour on somewhere along the line, with classes on how to manage a checkbook and compare insurance coverage plans for your car.

Illinois has embraced the federal standards of sex education which teaches that there is no such thing as normative sex, all sexual activity is of equal value, students may not be the gender they were told from childhood, the sex information on their birth certificates may not be correct, sex is something that is not connected with marriage, love, or family; and they need to decide as early as possible what gender they are so steps can be taken now before puberty kicks in and thoroughly confuses them as to what sex or gender they really are.

I submit that sex education as currently taught in our public schools is actually doing more harm than good.  I grew up before we had all that.  We had the basic instruction that most of that is best left for when you’re ready to get married.  Some of my friends didn’t get the memo, but sex education now is actually encouraging sexual activity rather than discouraging it.  How else will a child know their true gender if they don’t experiment?

No, the problem is overstated, and the cure is worse than the problem here.

the root causes of violence

The Times ran a major article today about “the root causes of violence.”  (Let’s build a world without the root causes of violence, June 23)

I admit I didn’t see them in the article, though there was something in there about experts who know the child’s name and the governor spending $250 million.  Yep, that should do it.

The best part of the article was its quote from Frederick Douglass: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

That is your answer to violence.  The problem, of course, is that we have millions of broken men in our society and it will take time for these children to grow up. 

I submit that the way we build strong children is the same way we repair broken men.  Unfortunately, the article didn’t say what Douglass thought about doing that, nor did it offer any of the author’s own insights.

I would say that we need to teach our children the value of human life.  Frankly, that’s a religious theme.  A secular society can’t teach that.  We have had several atheistic societies in the last century that killed tens of millions of their own citizens, because either they didn’t go along with the program or were deemed an unnecessary burden to society. 

That same religion will teach those children to love other people as they love themselves, to do unto others as they would have others do unto them, and, oh, that God will hold them accountable for how they treat others in their lives.

We used to do this throughout our society, and guess what?  We didn’t have a violence problem.  This is all a new thing that we are seeing today.

what is a right to privacy?

A Tribune reader was all up in arms about the Supreme Court striking down ‘the right to privacy’ that a previous Court found hidden somewhere in the 14^th Amendment.  (Striking down ‘right to privacy,’ June 17)

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

There are other sections to this Amendment, but they deal with more specific issues unrelated to anything here.

There are several problems here. 

First, the 13^th through 15^th Amendments to our Constitution were directed at the issues of integrating former slaves into our country.  It has nothing to do or say about LGBTQ rights, birth control, or abortion. 

But secondly, there are a number of controversial issues in our country in the last few decades, but because they are controversial, Congress doesn’t get enough of a consensus to make a law about it, so people want the Supreme Court to make a ruling on it. 

And they are trying too hard to find things in the Constitution that were never in the minds of anybody who wrote it or any of the 27 Amendments.  You have to look at the issues an Amendment was written to address in order to interpret it.  And you can’t use it to address totally new, unrelated things.  That’s up to Congress.

The idea of rights is well overused.  The Founders added ten Amendments to the Constitution that defined some of the inalienable rights given to us by God.  Because Congress legalizes an activity doesn’t make it a right.  And I would be very careful before I would declare anything else beyond those a right. 

Rights are generally things that you can do without the permission or regulation of government.  If your ‘right’ requires other people to do things for you, like giving you money, I don’t think we can call that a right. 

If there are other things you want to call a right, I don’t think the 14^th Amendment has anything to say about it.  Ask Congress to pass a law.

Religion and violence in our society

Recently faith leaders throughout Chicagoland have banded together to try to stem the flow of bloodshed in Chicago.  God knows we need to.

I must admit I am a bit disappointed in the particulars of their plans.  They offered nothing that any one or any group that was not a part of any faith would offer.  In other words, nothing of their faith itself was offered as a part of any solution to the problem of violence and killings in Chicago.

I went to school to become a faith leader myself.  It didn’t work out as a career, but I never stopped reading, studying, teaching, and writing on all things relating to faith. 

I suspect that maybe because these faith leaders are so focused on inclusion and ecumenicity, they are not giving enough thought and credence to their own faith. 

The central idea of Christianity is that God became human so that we can have a personal relationship with Him, such that Christianity is not simply a number of propositions to be believed but an experience of God in one’s lives, such that it bears the fruit of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control.

Now THAT is your answer to stopping the hatred and shootings and killings.  It’s only God that can take out the anger and selfishness and rage and frustration and envy and hatred that precipitates all this violence. 

It also teaches that human beings are created in the image of God and of immeasurable worth, and we must love them as ourselves. 

It was not the intent of the First Amendment to keep God out of our public life and policies.  Read the early writings.  The establishment of religion that Congress was forbidden to do was to choose a Christian denomination that would become a part of our government, like in England where the Queen of England is the Head of the Anglican Church. 

John Adams, our second President, said that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”

Removing religion out of our public schools and our public life and policies, removes the incentives and the power for people to find a new life free from all those negative feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and plans that end up in violence.  You’re not going to get people to actually care for each other without bringing God into the picture.

 

The Whole Problem in a Nutshell

I mourn with the rest of the nation over this tragic event in Texas when so many of our children, and their teachers, were gunned down by a crazy man.  This should not be.  The little ones who bring us so much joy in our lives also bring us indescribable enduring grief when their lives end in ways they should not.

The response to this tragedy was immediate.  Do something, we cried to anyone who will listen.

On the one hand, our country is awash with guns, and, on the other, we have a problem with gun violence.

There is a problem here but not the one you’re thinking of.

This problem was aptly described in an address given by John Adams, our second President, in 1798: ‘Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

For more than 50 years now, our country, our leaders, our courts, have all been insisting that our country is a secular country, and that was what the Founders intended.  All religions are equal, and essentially equally irrelevant in public life, the public square, our public education.  And definitely public policy.

The truth is that our Founders never intended that the United States be a secular nation, where religion does not inform all that we do as a nation.

Our founding document is the Declaration of Independence, and it declares that God has endowed human beings with unalienable rights.

These are not the natural rights of the philosophers.  Those rights were not endowed by Someone else, a Supreme Being.

And this is not stated as a belief but a fact.  They didn’t just believe that God did this.  They said He did it.  Religion was not just something that people thought in their minds.  This here was an event that occurred in human history.  God created human beings and gave them unalienable rights.

And how did they know that He did this?

This is not a universal religious tenet.  Even some major religions do not believe in a right to life or to a right to the pursuit of happiness.  These are particular Christian beliefs.  Their source of information was the Bible.

For almost two hundred years, our public schools had the Bible and prayer as an essential part of public education.  Not every school, but we were able to read and talk about God in them, and many schools even had the Ten Commandments posted in them.  All this was not required, but they were not prohibited as they are today.

Now we teach our kids that human life is not sacred.  It is merely an accident of nature.  We kill millions of babies before they are even born.  Not the government, but their own mothers.  If their existence is inconvenient or unplanned, we just get rid of them.  We even have a right to do that.  And people are applauded for doing that.  Life is disposable.

We think God and religion are irrelevant and unimportant in our society and its people’s lives.

Religion used to provide a basic moral framework for life, giving us the rules by which we can live our lives.  But now there are no rules, only what you make yourself and the society you live in.  Everything that our parents may have told us about God, morals, life, rules is pretty much wrong. 

There is no Higher Power to direct your life.  Life is like standing before an open field where you can go in any direction you want.  There is no right or wrong per se.  Just be who you are, whatever that means.  There is no Higher Power to whom you can seek help, and no Higher Power to whom you are accountable for your actions.

Religion is merely the attempt of unenlightened primitive people in the past to try to explain things that science now does for us.  There is no ultimate meaning in life.  There is no purpose to any of it.  You live, you die, and that’s it.  And the universe doesn’t care.  About anything, including you.

No, not everybody falls into despair at this bleak picture of life, but how many need to before we realize we have a problem and that our society is broken?

Guns were always abundant and freely available in our country.  You could buy a gun from Sears or a hardware store like you were buying a screwdriver.  No background checks, no FOID cards, no waiting periods.  And people felt safe.  They were safe.

But our society has changed.

We are trying to live without God in a system that assumed that we would.

Some will say then, just change the system. 

But that would not simply mean a change in a few laws, but a change in the entire idea of what America is.  Rather than change America to be more like other nations, why not leave America the unique country it is and seek a home somewhere else more suited to the modern secular mindset? 

We have millions of people every year coming to our country.  Maybe it’s time we had a few million people looking for their ideal country to look for it somewhere else, and let us get back to what we were founded to be.

 

 

Buying guns and voting

In the light of recent events, many people and lawmakers, in trying to reduce the rampant gun violence in our country, are advocating raising the age at which a person can legally buy a gun in our country.  Now the legal age is 18.  They want to raise it to 21.  (Age does matter, some say, June 5)

If Congress wants to pass a stand-alone bill to raise the legal age to buy a gun to 21, with an exemption for all military personnel, I am all for it.

Eighteen-year-olds are just not wise and mature enough to make such important decisions for themselves.

Could somebody please explain to me why 18-year-olds are deemed wise and mature enough to make important decisions for everybody else.  I am talking about being able to vote.  We have raised the age for legally buying tobacco and alcohol, why not voting?

I think the reason is that one party thinks a lot of 18-year-olds will vote for them.   But in light of all the changes in the last few years, I think it’s time we rethink this. 

I think we should raise the age for voting to 21 or whenever the person moves out of their house and supports themselves.

 

Follow the Science

During the height of COVID, we were urged to follow the science, and all those who resisted getting vaccinated were publicly and severely chastised for their ignorance.

Now we are being told that science cannot determine the sex of a newborn child, and we must wait until that child is maybe 7 years old, and that child itself will tell us, not that that child actually knows what sex is or what makes a boy a boy or a girl a girl.  (LGBTQ people seek more support, June 5)

In all honesty, science does know what sex that child is 99.99% of the time at first glance, and the only reason why we are even having this discussion is because we are trying hard, too hard, not to hurt anyone’s feelings.  We are willing to bend and deny science in an attempt to make everybody feel included. 

In the old days, we taught our children to love their neighbors as themselves and to do unto others as we would have others to us.  Now we have to try to force people to believe things that they know aren’t true or at least not to publicly say so in order to make people feel supported. 

But supported in what?  Sometimes the truth hurts, but only for a while.  Only as long as we fight it.

 

Enough is Enough

It’s time.  We have stood by long enough, and it’s enough.  We can’t let this go on any more.  And it’s all our fault in a way.  We put up with it, we said nothing about it all this time, we tolerated it, we were nice about it, but no more.  We just wanted people to like us, so we said nothing.  We went on our way and stayed quiet, hoping that people will think we are nice people.

Now our whole society is falling apart, and we do nothing.

No more.

In the name of tolerance and niceness, our whole nation has turned its back on God, and we stood by and let it happen.  Now our entire moral framework is on the verge of totally collapsing.

We have let the secularists teach our kids that there is no God.  We are all accidents of nature, tiny bits of life in a vast, cold, indifferent universe, where there are no laws of life but what we make them out to be.  We are finding that that is too great a burden for human beings to bear. 

We have totally lost our way as a society, and we are teaching this to our children, and they are confused and increasingly depressed.  They don’t know what to think or believe about anything anymore.  Everything they thought they knew is deemed wrong.  Their parents were wrong, even the very doctors who attended their births were wrong.

This has to end.

There is a God who created this world. 

If you think the world just exploded out of nothing billions of years ago, and just all by itself, all these pieces of inert matter formed themselves into living things that can reproduce and think and have self-awareness, then you’re just not paying attention, and I think much of that is intentional. 

Every nation in human history has acknowledged a Higher Being until the 20^th Century, and we think we are so much smarter than all our ancestors.  Look at us. 

The nations that have officially rejected a Divine Being are known as the most evil in all of human history.  How else do explain the tens of millions of people who died at the hands of their own governments as what happened in the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia?

Yes, I know, I know, bad things have been done in the name of the Church and God.  People contaminate most things they touch.  It’s called the human condition.  But don’t blame God for that.  That’s now what they were taught. 

Throughout our nation’s history, we taught our children and even in public schools the Ten Commandments, specifically the one that says Thou shalt not kill.  We taught them the Golden Rule, Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.  And the second greatest Commandment, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

We had a civil, moral society.  A perfect one, no.  Those humans again.  But at least we were teaching them to be kind to each other, to care for each other.

Now the best we can do is to tell our kids to tolerate each other, like there is no reason to like them.  Just ignore them if you have to.

But we are empty inside.  We have no bonds with our neighbors, the people we see and meet.  They are all competing against us for our place in the world.  They don’t care about us.  And more and more of us are resorting to violence to vent our rage against a cold world that has no hope or meaning.

Our nation was founded on a belief in God.  But even more than a belief, it was a fact.  The Founders did not say that they believed that God gave human beings inalienable rights and equality.  It was a fact.  It actually happened. 

We were created, not evolved out of swamp matter.  They believed that God gave us rules for life, and because people tried to follow those rules, they could live in freedom.  But we have rejected God and His rules, and now we are finding that freedom to be too free.  We can’t take that responsibility, and our society is crumbling under the weight. 

Thinking that we are wise, we became fools.  We have rejected the wisdom of the ages to try to recreate all the rules of life from scratch, and frankly it’s not working. 

Some people will think I have not been specific enough in detailing the problems and solutions, but these is only one problem and solution in mind here.  We need to restore God to our society and our personal lives, and more than that, we need to talk about Him again as a society.  There will be some differences in opinions, sure, but this is the elephant in the room that we have been ignoring for generations now, and we are all paying the price.

That ends now.