The true patriot
July 27, 2008 by Bill
On this 4th of July weekend I am writing about patriotism. Both of the President Bush’s have told me I am not a patriot in their public statements. I will let you be the judge.
On December 7, 1941, I was sitting in the living room of the Sigma Chi house at the University of Oklahoma. I was reading the morning paper when someone burst into the room and said “The Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor.” It did not take me long to realize that I would be prime for the draft. I did not want that. I decided that since I would be serving in the military I would like to choose my own branch. I decided that I would like to become a Marine Corps pilot. I enlisted in the Naval Aviation Cadet Program and after completion of that program I graduated as a 2nd Lt. in the United States Marine Corps. I flew through both WW II and Korea, for 12 years to be exact. That period of service included being decorated by the Commandant of the Marine Corps for bravery in combat. It later on included my being one of his four personal pilots.
I ask you to remember those facts as I write about the phony hype today about that word “patriotism”. Why do both of the President Bush’s accuse me of not being a patriot? Because I do not believe in their superstitious biblical God…that God who is the great cosmic bellhop…the great divine window peeker…the great celestial hit-man.
Listen to George Bush, Sr. “Atheists should not be considered citizens…nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.”
Jefferson and the 4th of July
July 20, 2008 by Bill
When John Kennedy was President, he gave a banquet in the White House that was without precedent. The banquet was for every living American Nobel Prize winner, with about 150 present. At the beginning of the evening, President Kennedy stood and announced he would give a toast. He said:
“Never has so much talent…and so much genius…been assembled in one room…since Thomas Jefferson dined…alone.”
The author of the Declaration of Independence that we celebrate today was a brilliant philosopher…scholar…theologian…architect…linguist…statesman…musician…horticulturist… agronomist…humanist…scientist…deist…and master of the civilized arts.
There is no question in my mind that the 4th of July is the most important holiday that we celebrate in this nation. All of the other holidays, Easter and Christmas included, pale by comparison.
Jefferson and the tyranny of religion
July 13, 2008 by Bill
We are celebrating on this weekend the Declaration of Independence. With only a very few word changes that magnificent document was written by one man, Thomas Jefferson.
I have one bust in my study. It is of Jefferson. On the base are these words of his: “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” He uses the word “God” as a Deist, not as a Christian. A vast difference. He made this scathing statement aimed at the tyranny of the Christian Church. In a letter dated August 22, 1800, Dr. Benjamin Rush wrote Jefferson that “Republicanism should ally itself to the Christian religion in order to overturn all of the corrupted religions of the world.” Jefferson was appalled. He responded with his now famous “every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” including the tyranny of the Christian church.
Jefferson and John Adams, with James Madison, had almost a total contempt for Christian doctrine, dogma and superstitions.
John Adams wrote that “the doctrine of the divinity of Jesus has made a convenient cover for absurdity” and Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli. This Treaty, written by George Washington, has Article Eleven which begins…”As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” This Treaty was ratified by the senate in 1797 without a SINGLE OBJECTION and signed by then President John Adams. Article six of the U.S. Constitution made this treaty doubly binding by saying…”All treaties made under the authority of the United States shall be bound thereby, anything in the laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.” It should be treasured today as the supreme document for the American doctrine of the absolute separation of church and state.
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