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Observations That I Have Noticed in America (Don't Read if You Are Offended Easily!)

Observations That I Have Noticed in America (Don't Read if You Are Offended Easily!)

[This article was written back when Trump was about to be inaugurated and I figured I'd share it here because I still feel these points are relevant today. For context, I am a pro-life, pro-gun, constitutional conservative, but I do not let that get in the way of being fair and consistent in my writing.]

It has come to my attention that we as Americans are out for blood when it comes to anything that could be considered left or right wing. Even with things that are not political or describe a political standpoint.


Religion, for example, has become a thing where if you're not a Christian, you're good. No matter what religion you practice or ideology you follow, as long as Jesus Christ isn't your lord or savior, you're considered smart and logical. This can come from a variety of different origins. Westboro Baptist Church, perhaps? The group with 40 members that are extreme outcasts from the rest of the Christians? They even speak against other Christian groups, like Catholics. Maybe the bible beaters? You know, the ones that will go around and take a verse out of context to say something is wrong or to say that something extremely wrong is right as long as you have a "good reason," etc.

One of the worst terror attacks by a "Christian" was carried out by a person who even said himself he was agnostic. But we get blamed for the few who are crazy? If I was a part of a religion who had groups that consisted of hundreds of millions of radicals and had hundreds of thousands of members who consistently carried out attacks against innocent people in the name of my God, I wouldn't be mad at those who were skeptical of my religion no matter how much I disagreed with the people who carry out such vicious attacks. I've said it once and I'll say it again, my brother in law, scratch that, my brother is a Muslim. He practices his religion peacefully, he doesn't eat pork, he prays and goes to the mosque and everything. His family over in his home country are wonderful people. Some of the nicest people from what I hear about them. I don't think he's a terrible human being for practicing his religion, just like he doesn't think I'm a terrible human for practicing mine. Yet the citizens here in this country have gone from "you practice what you want, and I'll practice what I want.

As long as it can coexist with the western world in peace, there's not a problem," to "If you believe in Jesus, you are illogical and should have no say on anything related to the hundreds of millions of radicalized Muslims that hold views that don't coexist with the western world. Western Culture is evil. " That is a problem because you have radicals from all religions that cannot coexist in the West peacefully and when we exclude that requirement we only open the doors to our demise as a free nation.


Another issue I've seen and can't stand is the whole situation with simply being honest. It happens on both sides of the spectrum so don't think I'm only attacking one side and protecting the other. Don't use a person, group of people, or an event to push your views then drop them and use another once you feel you've made your point. If you're for guns, don't run around using terror attacks in gun-free zones as a reason to keep your guns. That's intellectually dishonest. We should keep our guns because it's a right given to us in the Bill of Rights to be able to form a militia against our government when they overstep their boundaries and become tyrannical. You can use a terror attack as a reason to not have gun-free zones or to make a point about why taking certain guns away would be bad because criminals can still get the guns if they really wanted to kill, etc.

If you're pro-choice yet you use the children dying in Syria as a reason to look sympathetic and caring about the situation, that's another huge issue. You're either pro-killing or not. There's no in between. If you're okay with killing another human being and you want it to be a right, you are being not only intellectually dishonest, but you're also being a huge hypocrite to think that a dictator ending lives is terrible. There is a bit of a gray area when it comes to the pro-lifers. They believe that the innocent children should live, but they also believe that guilty killers should be killed themselves. It's not hypocritical or intellectually dishonest because the child in the womb has committed no crime, where the killer has. Trying to create a moral argument for the killer defeats the purpose of the argument since the morality of the killer is obviously not intact if they are okay with committing such horrendous crimes.

There is a moral argument, however, since there are stories of women who were denied abortions that directly affected their lives and have died during childbirth. That is something that most pro-lifers will agree that abortions would be necessary, but a majority of the time that argument is made is when people try to say that others are not true pro-lifers in a sad and crappy attempt to try and change the mind of the opposing pro-life individual. Another thing, if you're pro-choice, don't use rape cases as a reason to change a pro-lifer's mind. Rape and incest cases make up less than 1% of total abortions combined, so they are statistically irrelevant. If you were to use that against a pro-lifer, they could reply with a question about what you plan to prove with those statistics because people use them as a way to say all abortions are okay which is an extremely terrible debate tactic.


I get that people are going to have different views on things, I understand that people get upset over certain things that they're passionate about, but pretending that everything you say is true and everything someone you don't agree with says isn't true and you start attacking them, their religion, anyone who shares anything in common with said person is illogical and wrong. We can't keep going like this. We can't force everyone to have the same opinions on certain things, but something we can do is look at the same information, determine our own opinions from the source and then have a civil discussion about the topic. Resorting to hating on someone and everyone who practices/ thinks at least one shared thing with the person is incredibly ignorant, rude, wrong, and it further shows the idiocy of our country by the lack of the ability to simply communicate with one another.

Thank you for reading. What are your thoughts? Am I right? Am I wrong? I'd love to read your opinions and have a civilized discussion.

Observations That I Have Noticed in America (Don't Read if You Are Offended Easily!)
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