Category: Logic and Reasoning

This selection of Trump’s deposition in the Trump University fraud case shows how easy lying is for him.

Someone who fires a weapon is legally responsible for where that bullet lands. Why is this not the same for police officers?

It is legal to use a firearm in self defense when police serve a warrant with violence on the wrong location. There are court cases to back this up. This is why Breonna’s boyfriend didn’t end up in prison.

Why endangerment of life, but not manslaughter?

I don’t get why this took so long.

It all rings hollow to me.

Why do people who don’t look like me have less of a right to life than I do?

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been nineteen years since the World Trade Center was attacked and over 3,000 people lost their lives.

At first I didn’t believe the towers collapsed until I saw it on the news. I was thinking of the bomber that flew into the Empire State Building and fire. However, that was a propeller driven bomber so was not flying at the same speed, it was smaller, and had a lot less fuel.

I’m irritated at those who claim the government had a conspiracy to bring down the towers. I was a volunteer firefighter. The average hours first reached 3,000 degrees F. The metal I-beam used to support it will twist like a pretzel. It is very reasonable that a full size passenger jet flying over halfway through the building full of jet fuel would weaken the structure on one floor and cause the floors above to fall.

Anyone who believes all the conspiracy series is one of the millions of pictures under the word gullible in the dictionary.

People died. Children lost parents and grandparents. Wives and husbands were widowed. Siblings lost brothers and sisters. Aunts, uncles, cousins, best friends. We won’t get them back.

We went after bin Laden in Afghanistan and took our eyes off the ball to go after Saddam Hussein. That had manipulated intelligence and Colin Powell was the patsy. If we wanted to liberate Iraq, it should have been when the people of Iraq rose up against Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War. But no, we stood by an let him murder his people. Their might have been a stable Iraq.

Now we are left with an unstalbe Iraq and afghanistan, and Syria is a mess.

COVID-19 has hit Iran hard, and Trump is in a pissing contest with them.

I won’t be surprised if there’s another regional war soon. I sure hope I’m wrong.

Women should be able to dress how they want. The way that they dress is NOT an excuse for men to act like pigs.

Any religion that blames a woman’s state of dress for how a man has “impure thoughts” is a false religion.

Any lawyer who argues the way a woman, who was raped, was dressed as an invitation to the scum who raped her should be disbarred.

Any man who touches a woman inappropriately should be in jail. Go to jail/prison after your first offense, and their shouldn’t be a second.

Nipples

If we’re going to cover nipples in social media, we should be consistent and cover all nipples, including those of men, and the udders and teats of all mammals. If one kind of nipple is obscene, then all are. Either cover them all or cover none of them. National Geographic should block out the nipples in all their pictures of native peoples around the world.

Breastfeeding In Public

Female breasts are designed to product milk. Infants are designed to drink milk from the female breast. How is that shameful? Why is it OK to take pictures of breastfeeding women in poor, non-white countries, but for a white woman to feed her child in public, “Oh my gawd! It’s just not natural!”

Please, use your brain. Breast milk is much better for babies than formula. It is also cheaper. Formula should only be there for mother’s that can’t produce enough, or any milk. How much healthier would our children be if they got the right nutrients naturally?

I wrote this over fifteen years ago.

With all of the talk about the upcoming “The Passion of The Christ” movie, is the attempt to associate the old bogus argument that the Jews bear the collective guilt for the Crucifixion of Christ. I saw the movie and I thought it was too long and the “scandalous” temptation scene took too long. If those riled up had stayed silent this movie would have made even less money.

What people fail to realize is that this is a circular argument that falls apart if they think it through.

Proposition: The Jews (i.e. all of Jewish ancestry) bear collective guilt for the crucifixion of Christ.

Problem: Jesus is Jewish, so Jesus bears the guilt for his own death. If Jesus is thus guilty for his own death, then Jesus sinned. If Jesus sinned, then he was just a man, and all of Christianity is a sham.

Conclusion: Those who say that the Jews bear collective guilt for the death of Christ are not Christians.

The Christian Perspective: All of humanity is responsible for Jesus’ death. Jesus was sent to be a sacrifice for all our sins/guilt. If we accept this free gift, we have the gift of eternal salvation. I have heard few mention the fact that Christ rose from the dead. If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no one would remember him. He would be one of the nameless thousands who were executed by crucifixion.

The agents of anarchy who oppose the law of God, deny the reality of Christ’s resurrection, and at the same time blame the Jewish people for his death. Any one who has accepted the resurrection of Christ, knows that they are the most guilty person in their own life for the death of Christ. Yet in spite of all that, he loved us enough to die for us.

Some try to paint Hitler and his Nazi goons, the KKK, and other racist groups as Christian. Those who twist Christianity to fit their own ideas are not Christian. If they would read the Bible without pre-supposition, they would see that Jesus did not teach the hatred of his own people. Jesus came to fulfill the law and the prophets. Both the law and the prophets testify that the Jewish people have a special purpose in God’s eyes. To say that the Jews have lost this place, is to contradict the clear witness of Scripture.

The New Testament does use terms to describe the Jews in a negative light, but this is directed at the corrupt Jewish leaders who were more interested in keeping their power and position, not honoring God’s law. This is the same argument when the leaders of a failed company are blamed, but many mention the whole company by name, such as Enron. If the problem was in the management of the company, it is easy to blame former employees of the company by guilt with association, but the guilt is on the leadershp. Guilt by association may be enough cause for investigation, but will not lead up to an indictment or a conviction.

NOTE:Many millions of Jews, along with many other ethnic groups, were slaughtered in the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. Any one who says differently is ignoring the detailed records the Nazis themselves kept of the process.

DEFINITONS:

RACISM – The false belief that there is more than one race of intelligent beings composing humanity. Scripture and DNA clearly agree that there is only one Human Race. The supposed “races” have only external differences in appearance that are accumulated by concentrations of people with the same characteristics in the same geographic area for thousands of years. This is evident in that my oldest son and the son of my cousin have a strong resemblance, even though my cousin’s son is half Japanese, while my cousin and I are of English/Scottish/Irish descent. If there were truly different races, they would not be able to successfully intermarry. If there were no individuals who fit the stereotypes of a given “race”, especially the negative stereotypes, the myth of race would be easier to dispell. It is the idea of generalizing the attributes of one person to everyone who looks like that person, that is the error. All “races” have people that are “good” and people who are “bad”, as society defines those terms. Only focusing on one or the other only shows the bias that one has. Using individual behavior to blame and categorize a whole group of people is illogical. One sees this in arguments like: “All X are bad, but Joe is the exception.” The more appropriate argument is that all humans are capable of great good and great evil, some more than others. “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)