Evidently the Current Administration is Omniscent

Please correct me if I get some of this wrong.

My understanding of part of the Patriot Act is that the president and his chosen representatives and/or agents can declare someone to be “an enemy combatant”. That doing so, negates any rights this person has for formal charges, legal counsel, and they don’t need evidence to try and convict this person. This person does not even qualify for the Geneva Convention rights of prisoners of war. When did we decide that some people are not human and do not deserve to be treated as such?

I guess the administration just “knows” who is guilty without the aid of evidence. Forgive me for being stupid, but I thought that evidence was what we used to figure out who was guilty.

Or maybe, this is just a convenient way to get rid of those the administration deems an interference. It certainly is a way to look like they are fighting terrorism. They can say, “See, we have all these enemy combatants in prison! We are protecting the country”.

I also read that after we went into Afghanistan, the people of that country were offered a reward of about $5000.00 for each Al Queda member they turned in. Without needing evidence, I have no doubt there were plenty of names turned in! I’ll even bet many of those names were of goat herders, and farmers, etc. I know I feel safer knowing that those nasty goat herders are locked up!.

This is Scary.

First, of course, there is the fear that eventually myself or someone I know will get declared an enemy combatant. What recourse would we have? Once those Checks and Balances are gone, there is nothing much to stop an unscrupulous (and evil) administration doing whatever they want. Even if this administration has no evil intent, this lack of any “balance of power” leaves us (the people) vulnerable to future abuse.

Secondly, it scares me that when goat herders are locked up without evidence, are the real terrorists going free. Without evidence, how do we know which is which?

Beginning of the End of Belief

My grandmother started me out with the Southern Baptist denomination. When my father remarried and I went to live with him and my stepmother, I continued to attend church even though my parents did not. I was a devout believer and was baptised at around age 10.

As a teen-ager, I even taught vacation bible school. I was involved with the youth group as well.

At age 16, I had a question about religion. I went to my pastor and asked. I was told that since I was female, I was not allowed to ask the pastor questions directly. He said I needed to ask my husband or my father. I was not married and my father did not attend church nor did he read the bible. I belonged to a very small church and my pastor knew these things. I even pointed them out to the pastor. He insisted I talk to my father.

How very unsatisfying! How demeaning! I ask you, does having a penis somehow endow males with spiritual knowledge? It made no sense to me (still doesn’t). After all, if I have a medical question, I ask a doctor, etc. I had a spiritual/religious question, so I went to the person who was trained in religion and spirituality.

It seems more of a way to make sure the females only know what their male “masters” want them to know. Maybe that pastor did not want to step on another male’s toes by giving the female any information her father or her (theoretical) husband did not want her to have.

That was the beginning of my deconversion from Christianity. I did not give up on Christianity yet, though. I have always had a deep need to seek Truth, and I am stubborn. I thought maybe it was just this church….