Jonah's Blog (24)

Imagine if you were to be owned and held as property.  Imagine being controlled and told what to do, how to act, and how to think everyday . What if your livelihood depended so much on another person that thinking of freeing yourself only served to enhance feelings of helplessness ?   How would you feel if the very thought of the consequential results that would be triggered if you even attempted to challenge or free yourself from this slavery provided you a sense of normalcy with being…

Be fruitful and multiply.  What horrible advice.  We have a serious problem here on earth.  We have an estimated  7 billion people and very limited resources.  The world population is continuing to grow, but eventually, we will slow down. What is more disturbing is that humans have been caught up in separating each other by dividing themselves between imaginary territorial lines and fighting to either conquer or preserve the resources within those lines to guarantee survival.  If one…

I would like to bring out the inspiration of atheists today by drawing from two concepts brought forth by Charles Darwin’s observations.  In The Origin of Species, Darwin  writes about the struggle for existence.  Darwin’s observations led him to the following conclusion:…

We witnessed the United States reach a significant milestone three years ago when the American people elected a black president.  Abraham Lincoln, viewed historically as the savior for the black race, once said in referring to the black man, “he is not my equal in many respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment”.  Of course Lincoln also went on to say, “But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand…