FLEEING SODOM
The Lost Art of the True Patriot
According to a large percentage of pharisaical fundamentalist Christians, God destroyed
Sodom and Gomorrah mainly because it had a large openly homosexual population. The problem
with this type of right-wing religionist reasoning is that the view itself is perhaps, more
immoral than the entire population of both of these ancient cities combined, as it insinuates
that these certain narrow-minded Christians are somehow, better and more moral than the rest of
us. The author of Letter To The Romans, in agreement with modern scientific
findings, states that all human beings are sexually askew of the natural intent of our Creator;
modern science has discovered that all human beings fall somewhere in between being one hundred
percent ‘homo’ or ‘hetero’ sexual. * He also concludes that there is no significant
'moral' difference between any of us and that it is grossly and entirely immoral to condemn
another human being for their surface sexual orientation or for any other perceived
difference. The author goes on to state that conservative fundamentalists who condemn
other people for supposed moral differences are themselves, announcing to the world their utter
perverted queerness in the opinion of our Father in heaven. ¹
Unlike these entirely wrong conservative religionists mentioned above espouse, the Old
Testament prophet Ezekiel taught that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because these cities
contained arrogant populations of wealth and ease that ignored the plight of their sick and
poor. Quite similar to modern day America, whose wealth-corrupted leaders refuse to
provide adequate healthcare for the common and poor masses and who consistently fail to even
mention the plight of the homeless among their political party platform priorities, as if it
doesn't even matter to them if the wealthiest nation on earth has a significant homeless
population. ² According to the New Testament Jesus, God will judge nations based on
care, or lack of care, for the sick and the poor. ³ Many modern historians, even
those who do not believe in God at all, agree that if a nation does not take care of its sick
and poor, that nation will not long survive.
Historically, when the sick and poor common masses become despondent enough, they a)
greatly reduce production, increasingly resist taxation and eventually revolt, b) lose all
sense of patriotism, become increasingly apathetic and secretly if not openly, often aid that
nation's enemies and/or, c) develop plague and similar catastrophic ailments and their diseases
spread on up the line of wealth and privilege, inflicting and eliminating those who would
vainly imagine to continue to hold the less fortunate in economic servitude. Usually
within the historical lesson, it is a combination of these factors that causes major
civilizations to eventually decline and fall. Thus the obvious conclusion is that, whether
or not there is a God, whether or not God has the power to punish cities and nations and whether
or not we like it or really want to, it remains in all of our best interest to come to the aid
of the sick and the poor.
We therefore can define true morality as care for the less fortunate among ourselves, along
with treating all people, as we ourselves would like to be treated. Thus, Human Rights
becomes the yardstick of moral measurement, as Jesus long ago indicated when he set down the
fundamental basis for Human and Civil Rights with his all-encompassing great
command: "Therefore whatever you want people to do to you, do also to them, for this is
the law and the prophets". 4 This “Golden Rule” is by historical default, the basis and
measuring rod of true morality. It is impossible to be a follower of Jesus, as some would
have us believe they are and at the same time, ignore the sick and the poor. And to claim
thus becomes equally a lie if we follow the hypocritical example of the conservative religious
right (better viewed as the "fundamentally wrong"), who consistently seek to elect those who
practice the opposite of peace and goodwill, advocating wars of aggression while ignoring our
nation's health, our diseased and our poor. Supporting such leaders in the name of some
entirely twisted and misconstrued notion of outward "white-washed tomb" 'morality', which the
true historical Jesus utterly hated and despised, is anti-Human Rights and anti-Civil Rights,
against our Father in heaven and the natural order of creation. **
To understand the great lessons of history is to understand that care for the sick and poor
is a matter of both personal and national defense. Primary to the great and just cause of
Human and Civil Rights and by historical default, primary to true patriotism, is care for the
less fortunate among us. When we care for the least of our society, we demonstrate the
greatest love for our country and concern for the future of both our nation and our entire
planet. Consequently, the masses of common and poor people and every other thinking member
of We The People of America and Planet Earth should support those in authority who make the
health and economic well being of our poor and general populations their primary political
platform and agenda. Also, we should move to peacefully replace leaders who ignore or
hinder what is best for the sick, poor and common masses, as not only do they not demonstrate
love for our country or concern for our planet's future, neither do they care about their own
flesh and blood; their own children, grandchildren, nor the immediate well being and future of
their own contradicting selves.
In the closing chapter of his autobiography America's most famous biker, Sonny Barger,
writes: "I've learned the hard way that to understand my heart is to understand the evil
that lurks inside. I can't hide behind religious traditions and superficial heroes."
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Though our modern scientists and educators do their best (perhaps more accurately, their
worst) to convince us otherwise, the bloodbath of evidence in both the historical record and our
modern reality, as well as volumes of scientific psychological data, clearly indicates that We
The People of our planet have an underlying disease that cuts straight to the motivational core
of our beings. 6
Those who would deny such have no valid explanation for why we find it
necessary to again and again, instruct our children to be good, often with threats of
punishment if they are not. If children are naturally good, why is it that they quite
readily disobey rather than obey, even though most adults would never consider deliberately
teaching children to disobey? We do not have to go out of our way to convince our children
to be bad---rather we often find it necessary to repeatedly teach them to be good; a very basic
and simple, yet conclusive indication that we as a species, have a fundamental problem. (See
Adam and Eve's Apple
for more information.)
As patriotic citizens and ethical human beings, we must strive to promote that which
encourages people to treat other people as we ourselves, wish to be treated. We must also
insist that our educational system not only teach our children intellectual facts, which are
useless and often dangerous in themselves but also, demand that it promotes social morality and
reason of knowledge toward practical application in the positive tradition of individuals such
as Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt and Jonas Salk. For in doing so, we
are encouraging love, peace and perhaps most logically, common historical horse sense. If
we make a positive and deliberate stand for Human and Civil Rights, consistently promoting
individual and collective freedom and respect, while emphasizing help for the sick and poor and
others less fortunate than ourselves, then we are true patriots in the tried tradition of Harriet
Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez. And thus, we are helping to turn the
tide of the wrath of Sodom's judgment away from our nation and instead, asking for our Father's
blessings to continue to flow down the storied slopes of Mount Rushmore.
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DEDICATED TO: Eleanor
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would probably have been our greatest president if
we had true equality in the United States and undoubtedly deserves to be immortalized on Mt.
Rushmore as much or more than the four former presidents who already are. Unlike what is
most unfortunately the truth regarding many of our former and the majority of our current
political leaders, Eleanor Roosevelt understood the paramount importance of helping the less
fortunate of society in order to insure the ongoing preservation of us all.
Credits:
1. Letter To The Romans: Chapter One. It helps if one reads the entire chapter and the
chapters following before falling into the superficial religiosity trap of conservative
blasphemers. The author of this letter, which was not originally divided into chapters
and verses as most modern translations ignorantly insist on doing, would never condemn someone
for being homosexual, nor would he consider a homosexual to be one bit worse (or better) than a
heterosexual. The conclusion of the first chapter and the entire Letter To The
Romans is that all human beings "fall short" of what is by nature, desirable and correct
and thus, it is "inexcusable" for any of us to condemn someone else. To promote otherwise
is to lie before the true Creator of the universe and to reap one’s reward,
accordingly. Those of the 21st Century who put their faith in the rather shaky and
contradicting god of modern science might take note that modern psychology and documented
studies of human sexuality have demonstrated more-or-less, the same underlying seething mass
of corrpution that Paul describes in this letter (see FootNote below).
2. Ezekiel 16:49
3. Matthew 25:31-46
4. Matthew 7:12
5. Hell's Angel by Ralph "Sonny" Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman.
6. See The Myth of
Modern Science and Adam
and Eve's Apple for more information.
*FootNote: The findings of modern science since Freud and the author of Letter To The
Romans agree that human sexuality as defined on the surface of our cultural heritage
restraint is as such, but a band-aid bubble covering up the seething mass of rage, fear and
confusion underneath. This also agrees with Jeremiah, "prophet of the nations", who
said: "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know
it?" According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, science finds no agreement or
general satisfying explanation as to
why members of our species ultimately become on the surface what we incorrectly conveniently
categorize as "hetero", "homo" and "bi-sexual" individuals. On the scale of modern
scientific surface sexuality, no human being is entirely "gay" nor entirely "straight", thus
our science has once again concluded what an author of the Bible already knew a couple of
thousand years previously, although the Biblical view remains more accurate, advanced and mature
in the light of historical as well as physical evidence (modern scientists and historians rarely
cross-reference each other’s disciplines and thus, science continues to invent shallow concepts
of non-empirical assumption, such as evolution by Natural Selection, which clearly fails to
adequately explain why our species acts as it does in the known historical record charting the
gold-entranced and invariably resulting blood-drenched “course of human events”).
It is interesting how many 'discoveries' of modern science, such as the passing of negative
traits from one generational gene pool to another, the eventual death of our sun, the eventual
passing away of the universe, evidence of other planets along with the probability of other
intelligent life forms, bottomless "black hole" pits filled with the fire and brimstone remnants
of stars, the existence of other dimensions and past and future universes, the existence of so
many stars that they are essentially "without number" and other 'beliefs' of modern science were
long ago portrayed as fact by the authors of the Bible (see Random Chance A-Z Primer
of Science and the Bible for more details).
**FootNote II: It remains comically sad that the far-right religious coalition of
conservative demagoguery consistently promotes candidates of blatantly obvious corporate lobby
avarice and political malfeasance who ignore our nation's health and welfare, ignore
catastrophic disease, our homeless population, the welfare of our senior citizens and who
consistently sacrifice our planet and it's inhabitant’s future for the short term gain of a few
dollars more. Notwithstanding all of this gross immorality, these same representatives of
Benedict Arnold ceremoniously conduct daily prayers in our nation's capitol asking for God's
blessing while they meanwhile, wage wars of international aggression and plot to ring our
planet with the laser cannons of a future Armageddon. Apparently the god of the modern
conservative fundamentalist finds such political and social sodomy preferable to one President
Clinton, who seems to have had a little trouble keeping his britches up.
CREATION ESTIMATES
Anyone who has traveled much or flown very high in an airplane is aware that, from a human
perspective, the earth is very large. The mass of the sun, which appears to be larger
than the average star, yet is much smaller than many stars, is 330,000 x the mass of the
earth. The largest known star is estimated to be 150 times the mass of the sun and
between 5 and 40 million times more luminous. ¹ The average distance of Pluto from
the Sun is approx. 3.7 billion miles and the nearest star is about 25 trillion miles away.
The size of our galaxy is estimated to be 120,000 light years, which is about 120,000 x
5,878,786,100,000 miles. There are estimated to be about 200 billion stars in the Milky
Way galaxy. Some galaxies are considerably smaller than ours while some are much
larger. There are estimated to be about 125 billion galaxies in the visible universe.
The universe is estimated to be at least 156 billion times 6 trillion miles wide. Some
scientists believe there are so many
individual stars in the universe that they are essentially, without number. Most
scientists believe that at least eleven dimensions exist within our own universe. Some
astronomers believe there may be as many entire universes as there are stars in our own
universe and that there may be other unknown creation beyond these universes---such conclusions
are based on indirect evidence and are not merely guesswork or fanciful
thinking. ²
Most people rarely consider what the term “Creator” actually
implies. Most of these individuals are the same people who insist that their own
particular religion or philosophy and/or other opinion is entirely or essentially
correct. Likewise, it is a very fair and astronomically correct conclusion of the ancient
psalmist who said: “The fool has said in his or her heart, ‘there is no
God’.” ³ For how could anyone here on microscopic spec of dust Planet Earth possibly
know that there is no God?
Credits:
1. Star LBV1806-20 located on the far side of our Milky Way galaxy.
2. Astronomy estimates mainly from Encyclopedia Britannica (2003); some from data obtained
by very recent Hubble Telescope observations as reported on CNN.com and in the NY Times.
3. Psalm 14:1 (pc)
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