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Wearing Masks – Religion and Politics
Nobody in his or her right mind made the argument that the disease would cease to be as a result of the measures in place. That’s not just true for COVID-19. Like it or not, the reason ‘flu shots have any efficacy at all—and I should say it’s pretty questionable they’re anything but hit-or-miss, but that’s another matter—is that the same strains (likely mutated to some degree) keep coming back around. The simple reality is, you don’t stop illnesses by the measures being used, you largely just postpone the inevitable. That’s not just true for a single virus. Taking such measure affects how other bugs propagate as well.
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Bad Information – Religion And Politics
I understand the police do wrong. I’m not trying to cast them as infallible. Even though that’s true though, continuing to argue things like systemic racism and massive law enforcement corruption based on a few cases that don’t tend to end as originally advertised is neither helpful, nor more importantly, correct. Please don’t perpetuate bad information. Learn the facts before making your decisions.
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Asking the Right Questions – Religion and Politics
Do you feel like you’re always making the wrong choices? Does it seem like you regularly miss critical things? How many times a day do you say, “I wish I had done this or that.”? Perhaps it’s time to start stepping back a pace or two and asking the right questions. I know that’s often the case for me.
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Ending X – Religion and Politics
That said, I want to make it plain. Bad things will happen. You can try to stop them through a variety of mechanisms—in fact, I recommend you try to do so—but you’ll never see them entirely cease. Keep up the work of bringing to a minimum those bad things wherever possible. Realize though that the chances are likely insurmountably high, you’ll never make them entirely stop occurring.
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The Irreplaceable Man – Religion and Politics
If there were a man whose visage and words would fill my mind were I asked to nominate somebody for the office of national treasure, you can be assured that Dr Thomas Sowell would be very high on the list—probably at the top of it. Intelligent, cogent, soft-spoke, knowledgeable, wise, kind and so much more, these are the adjectives I would use in extolling his person to one who wanted to know about whom I speak.
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COVID-19, The Reality – Religion and Politics
Many probably think I’m crazy for what I’m saying here, but I’m going to bring this article to its conclusion. You need to ask yourself one simple question. “Why after more than six months of watching this play out, with numbers dropping drastically, are we still treating this like it’s the worst thing on the planet (even though cancer kills almost double the number on an ongoing basis)?” I don’t know but I promise I have my suspicions; and they have more to do with politics than health.
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My Body, My Choice and Mask Wear – Religion and Politics
You can hold it against me, that I don’t wear masks (even though in six months, the death toll from COVID-19 in the state where I reside is somewhere in the range of 530 persons). If you do though, expect me to ask you about your actions during the ‘flu season. Likewise, expect me to ask you why you’re not wearing one when you have a cold. Is that anything like killing an “inconvenient child?” I think not.
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Packing Heat – Religion and Politics
To close, it may seem attractive to infringe the basic rights of Americans by seeking to disarm the populace at large. You may even think you or others have good reason to do so. I would encourage you to consider just the few things I’ve mentioned in this little essay, and to look at other such arguments with a critical eye. They may seem good, that doesn’t mean they are.