Yea Verily Even Thereunto Sam Aurelius Milam III
Here's
an article for people who believe that America is a Christian nation, and
for those who like to claim God-given rights. Shown below are the
numbers of occurrences of certain words in the King James Version of The
Holy Bible. As is explained in the statement
from the Revised Standard Version of The Holy Bible that I quoted
in Raving Over Time, the King James Version is obsolete. Even
so, that version is still the favorite of the Bible thumping evangelists.
It's also the version that's used in my 1990 edition of Strong's concordance.
That edition is The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible,
copyright © 1990. Different numbers will result from using different
concordances or different versions of The Holy Bible.
Word command
democracy
freedom
king
kingdom
law
liberty
obey
rights
servant
serve | Number of Occurrences104
0
2
2229
335
518
27
69
0
473
238 |
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* Rights
is a tricky word. See The
Right Rite in the December 1994 issue of this newsletter, and Rights
Galore, in the May 2010 issue.
Strong's
1990 edition shows 357 uses of the word right, but they're mostly about
somebody's right hand, probably in connection with smiting and slaying.
There isn't any mention at all of rights, as a political concept. |
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Given
those numbers, I speculate that The Holy Bible has more to do with
commands and obedience than it does with liberty, freedom, or rights.
It's mostly concerned with an Almighty God (Big Brother and centralized
control) who knows all and sees all (surveillance), who rewards the faithful
(entitlements and welfare programs) and who punishes sinners (tough on
crime, mandatory sentences, and three-strikes). There are commandments
(prohibitions and regulations) and required attitudes (political correctness).
There's only one path to salvation (patriotism). Here's the most
frightening speculation of them all. Given the comparisons just noted,
maybe the Christians are right. It would be a sorry situation but,
if America isn't already a Christian nation, it seems to be getting closer
all the time.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif) ![Gun](../../Images/Gun.gif) Sound-Check Sam Aurelius Milam III
Toleration
is a good thing but I have the impression that most of the people who keep
trying to forcibly impose it onto everybody else are just as biased as
everybody else is. It seems to me that they want us all to tolerate
their own favorite factions but they're not willing to tolerate us.
Just as an example, it seems nowadays to be pretty much required that everybody
must praise and admire the LGBTQ crowd. People who don't like
them are condemned. Why are the LGBTQ people entitled to unconditional
toleration, but people who disapprove of them aren't? The social
reformers don't apply the same requirement for toleration to themselves
that they apply to everybody else.
A
standard of equal treatment, which the various social reformers appear
to advocate, would suggest that one faction should get the same toleration
as its opponents, regardless of who's right and who's wrong. Besides
that, as often as not, the right and the wrong of a social dispute is a
matter of arrogance, false assumptions, or ill-informed and misguided opinion,
on both sides. So, if we don't like the members of some gang of social
reformers but we tolerate them anyway, then they should tolerate us, even
though we don't like each other. It seems to me that the kind of
selective disapproval that appears to be standard practice for social reformers
has less to do with high-flown principles than it does with whoever is
in the position, at the moment, to make the most noise.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif) ![Gun](../../Images/Gun.gif) Letter to the Editor Sam,
Keep
up the good fight.
Enclosed
are some stamps.
—J. M., of Northridge, California | |
![15x15 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/15x15_Page_Background.gif) The Rubbin’ Out Sam Aurelius Milam III, Thursday, August 17, 1978 With thanks to Omar Khayyam The Moving Grader bites; and, having bit,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall
lure it back to cancel half a Lane,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Curb of it.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif) ![Gun](../../Images/Gun.gif) Stray Thoughts Sam Aurelius Milam III • We
need more smart people and fewer smart devices.
• Civilization
is a theoretical condition that we've extrapolated from some of the idealistic
imaginings of dreamers.
• It's
a bad idea to reward people who don't work and, at the same time, penalize
people who do.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif) ![Gun](../../Images/Gun.gif)
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