CAN WE RESPONSIBLY AVOID POLITICS?..JUNE 13, 2021

There are individuals in high leadership positions in our government who have healthy respectful views of the many natural differences among us human citizens. 

And there are also many in high positions who see 'other than their circle or kind' as negatively different. These high-end persons are NOT devoted personally to protecting by law the equal rights of all of us. This includes not standing up for persons of all colors, ethnicities, religions, sexual/gender identifications and any 'other' minority demographic. 

If we don't think it matters what kind of persons we vote for in this regard then aren't we essentially saying to all minorities, ' To hell with you. You just don't really matter as much as I and my kind do." ? Isn't that the opposite of what America, and for that matter the Christ story, professes to be about?

Don't we deceive ourself to claim to love, value and respect all citizens and still decline to make focused, deliberate, thoughtful political choices for the 'healthy' kind of candidates wherever they come from or what party they may be? 

And don't we deceive ourself to not realize times in our history, like now, when generally a whole party, with its one-man leadership, openly doesn't seek 'healthy' open-minded candidates? Ones interested in the rights and protections of all U.S. citizens? 

Can we vote for such persons and still claim to care about securing equality for all, a national 'democratic' atmosphere. I'm not personally seeing how.

FINDING ONE'S MORE COMPLETE SELF..June 1, 2021

 It is seeming to me that for most to find and follow ones true self one must make mental contact with and be influenced by some, at least one, of the greatest human genius creative minds.

 Instead we tend to listen and follow some watered down worn out values and principles and cliches of our collective cultures , groups and institutions. Or easily fall into some form of the obsessive materialism of our times.

I know little of Tolstoy except that he is one of those gifted genius minds, one of those who is actually a spiritual gift to all of humanity. Jim Rigsby happened onto him it appears. 

These creative genius minds turn out, often in spite of themselves, to also be the greatest lovers, lovers of all humankind. So they all are teaching the same thing, that the greatest of all things is indeed love. If we can only discover what that means to us and spend a significant part of life doing do it. Then we might more fully, and perhaps more consciously, become what we are intended to be.

'Abortion' A WORD THAT HAS BLINDED AMERICA ..May 30, 2021

 

Wonder why this is the case? I fell under this delusion about the nature of abortion in 1968. Little did I know that all of 'evangelical' Christisnity was about to make it as it's new marching orders and a new political ideology. Most Republicans, acknowledging it or not, have become for all practical purposes one issue voters. If a politician, no matter his character and competence, claims to be anti-choice he gets the vote.

The misguiding and tragically destructive spell the word abortion casts was fully lifted from me by 1980 while I was still a preacher in an evangelical church. I'm grateful for that and wish it for so many others. 

Imo our nation would be so much healthier emotionally, spiritually and politically if there were not this single emotionally based sentimental obsession, which blinds people to the issues we need to nationally face now. This was also the beginning of many ordinary folks turning to an anti-science attitude regarding many crucial issues facing us.

If this word abortion were not such an immediate obsession with so many I don't think there would have ever been a Trumpism. Yet it's important to understand the nation had been groomed for a Trump type leader for many decades by an anti womens' choice attitude. And I suspect he would be quick to allow his own family women to choose abortion.

This political hostility toward women and opposing the human right for her own timing to have children I'm confident will not stand against the slow but strong evutionary trajectory for the full equality of women. Such a backward societal leaning will not imo survive against modern scientific/psychological kowledge or the emerged urgent need of America to discover a new redeeming spiritual/religious attitude in our land.

CAN ONE MOMENT OF JUSTICE BRING MANY MORE..OR NOT? April 20, 2021

 This can be a genuine turning point in America living up to its highest ideals and its potential greatness. For it to stick though citizens must hold ourselves and our officials accountable to follow through with its meaning. 

This great historic reminder that "justice and equality' of all persons need not just be a pious phrase but an ever growing reality in this nation. That we can more clearly see the astonishing value and beauty in each human life. And can agree more and more that ALL persons deserve the same protections and supports from our laws and officials.

VOTING SHOULD BE EQUALLY CONVENIENT FOR ALL... March 7, 2021

 It seems like white America continually forgets from one generation to the next how horribly we and our laws have treated our black  brothers and sisters. 

We may be nearing our last chance in Congress to make the votes of black persons just as strong and alive in shaping our country's culture as white votes are. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/07/time-some-more-good-trouble-voting-rights-56-years-after-bloody-sunday/?fbclid=IwAR3olg_t6ZCptKCUAbw7sP8YsyiJTtM5relj9X0rbAvHb8ijIgoXqyqaEaw

White persons must rise above the fearful and backward need to make Americ a white  culture rather than truly the mixed skin color culture that its evolutionary and divine destiny is. We need to determine to have America's laws truly, freely and fairly support a nation whose culture is a natural product of ALL its people. 

We still don't know what that would look like but we could trust it will be more beautiful, strong and inspiring than our white dominated one forced by political suppression of the votes of dark skinned citizens. Oh happy  glorious day to come, a more genuine United States of America.

TOO MANY AMERICANS SEE VIOLENCE AND LIES AS SOCIALLY NECESSARY...January 12, 2021

How can anyone doubt the clear mentality of our white history while so many poorer Blacks have been trying in vain to live in simple real human equality. Our white history is that we have  feared that black persons' increased votes will 'steal' our culture from us.?

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/11/966498544/a-scary-survey-finding-4-in-10-republicans-say-political-violence-may-be-necessa?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR39tLyOok21xzKQAi_0BKf4tTeLYID8U7g6tbrukPxAYI0iCJmyaj5J6O4

Why can't we finally just own it and stop that immoral and silly 'fight.'? Our white history has been a fight to keep a majority white culture and its privilege alive and dominant, even if we've had to approve lies. That is what the violent attack on the Capitol at bottom was about. 

I'm referring to the white unowned, and often barely conscious, gripping  fear that America is headed to become primarily a dark skinned nation where white skin will have no more favoritism than other skin colors. And that we will be finally a grand developed democracy in the world. And ironically that is an accurate and hopeful image of the best new developing America. But the fear of it is a backward looking  tragic delusion. This image instead should be what we are prayerfully looking to and longing for.

It is quite obvious, from this perspective, that an effort to maintain a white skinned privileged culture has been relentless from our start. And it directly opposes both scientific/social evolution and any sober estimate of a Sacred Will for our nation---our two most reliable sources of social truth and human dignity. 

It's time to 'Stop the Steal' of human dignity and mutuality. And time to insist on one equal race. It's way past time to stop these tragic hide and seek games which successfully divide us and foolishly seek to stop our highest and truest national destiny. 

The Capitol assault on Jan 6, 2021, as this post also indicates, makes clear that many (including many in Congress) will now openly support deadly violence to prevent our democracy from outgrowing its undermining determined  'favored white skin' mentality. 

After many conversations this rational is my best and most accurate understanding of America's ongoing, and now definitely most dangerous, internal problems. 

Most responses I get are some form of, 'We've managed this problem for 300 years. It's not as serious as you think it is Jim'. I've come to suspect it is more serious than most anyone knows or imagines. And it is nearly entirely a White People's problem to solve. We hold the real answers in our own history and heart.

AN ASTONISHING NATION FACES ITS ORIGINAL DARKNESS..January 6, 2021

 As a culture we remain significantly unconscious of our original national sin of racism. Our refined rational mind just can't fully face it. We actually know, at various levels of consciousness, how real and egregious such believed ethnic superiority is and the divisions it demands.

Unfortunately removing the segregation of public facilities in the mid sixties only worked on the symotoms, not the racist heart problem of our white majority. It remains as strong as ever as the unspoken fear that 'people of color are going to take stuff of mine and give it to undeserving others making me poorer, holding me and my family back.' That essentially is now the heart problem and big national lie. In this way it's no more complicated than an older sibling being jealous and fearful of a new child in the family.

It is deeply psychological and continues to eat at America's heart. It's in the faces of those who stormed our capitol just minutes before  Congress was to approve the election of a non racist president. It was done in the hope of intimidating Congress from doing it's sworn job thus allowing Trump to stay in unlawful power. It was only a dream-wish. We can be very thankful Congress did not cower in fear that night but came right back and certified the legal President.. 

But our central problem remains maybe stronger than ever.  It is nearly in the full open which is a spiritual/psychological improvement for it is more honest. None of us can for long hide from behind our white status much longer. Citizen Donald Trump has simply become a living symbol of keeping white supremacy alive in America. 

I suspect this 'uprising'  in following the Trumpian symbol is another last gasping effort to cling to white superiority by a third of us. This in a nation destined for something far more admirable and glorious. This is my living hope. I know of no overt racist organization that does not strongly support Mr Trump and for the open cause of white supremacy. He has purposely and consistently emboldened them culminating in the seige on our Capitol January 6, 2021.

At varying levels of consciousness I suspect all white adults know our real heart truth. And it will have to be faced for its ugliness, maybe sooner than later, by us all. We will finally 'see' our own collective shadow clearly. God help us each to find our own truth and courage. And may we not foolishly spill blood and waste treasure due to a lack of consciousness of our own long-time truth.