American prosperity

I have seemingly been bombarded with thoughts in the area of American arrogance which has made me think about the reasons for this mindset. America is one of the most prosperous countries in the world therefore most of its people are very self-righteous and condescending in the spreading of the American culture throughout the world. Americas prosperity has becom one of its greatrest attributes but also one of its worst detriments. Americans have become extremely selfish in their goals and worldviews there hasd been a severe loss of personality in the U.S. This loss of personality stems from that selfish want for more - not just more money but more land, food, friends, fun, sex or anything really, this has assisted in tearing the people of America farther and farther apart from each other and from the world. The "dog eat dog" mentality has given way to a bunch of cruel ideas of how to get ahead by stepping on the little people and basically the ends justifying the means sort of thing. This has also led to a major loss of people being personal due to a fear of personal hurt. Americans are shallow because they're afraid of what others think of them.

(I am planning a follow up post but I have a buttload of hpmework right now)

<---->

The idea of censorship has been in our culture for years, I believe that it is an exceptionally good principle - in most cases. The cases that it is good in are those such as foul language, or nudity and the like - things that would (to the majority) be considered socially unacceptable. There has been a movement in the past several years to censor other things like beliefs or ideas that might cause a change in society - things, which the first amendment of the U.S. constitution was designed to protect. I have been thinking about writing this for several months now and I think that now is the time. The recent California court ruling that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional is (to me anyway) an open attack on not just Christianity, but any religion that has a "god" figure as its basis, this is an attack on the first amendment rights of all Americans as well - a serious dejavu for many back to the school prayer battle. I know you're thinking church and state church and state- that is a major load of crap, this government was founded on the basis that there was some sort of deity that was out there floating around, so I know that God is not God to everyone but for those of us who believe in Him can you kindly keep your mouths closed or - better yet go start your own country. Keep your atheistic self out of my life and my country. I'm ticked and pressed for time, so this sounds very calloused and blunt but hey, if I don't make someone think about this then my goal of swaying opinions is lost and I have just wasted my time.

I can't think of a title

The amount of donations here for relief has been amazing, I spent 3 hours this afternoon with 5 other people sorting childrens clothes donations for refugees downtown near USC. I will give an apology to Mark about the tartness of my response to his post earlier (and the self righteous in-your-face response post) but my arms were tired from food moving (okay so it's not a good excuse but it's all I have). I was also feeling overwhelmed by my 19 class hour course load (of which only 17 count for credit). I will say that the idea of prayer should definitely not be abandoned though because (scoff if you like) it works.

A small contribution

With the thousands of people being sent to Columbia SC as refugees from this dang hurricane, I had the opportunity to see a huge show of kindness from people through donations. Yesterday afternoon WMHK radio held a relief drive (food, clothes,...) at (I know, I know Mark) WalMart, in just a few hours they recieved close to a hundred shopping carts heaped up with stuff for the people who are being sent to SC. I was able to donate my time since money is scarce for college students. From 7:00 to 10:30 I helped load and unload a tractor trailor half full of stuff. I thought that it was pretty cool that I could help in some way.