Our Authentic Identity
Origin matters. Since the Supreme Court of the United States by fiat decided to "take prayer out of the schools," we've noticed a progressive moral impoverishment of youth and a gradual coarsening of childhood development. The news is replete with shootings, rapes, kidnappings and murders. Many of us grieve to witness such painful and lawless conflagration in America.
Children are taught they are no more than "descendants of monkeys," rather than that they are uniquely created in the image and likeness of God. Chimpansees are beasts; no human being should ever be compared to one. Following this grievous error, the Supreme Court again violated the Declaration of Independence by its decision to make infanticide commonplace with the Roe v. Wade "mis-judgment." These decisions violate our Founding document, the Declaration of Independence in which our Creator is proclaimed as the sole Author of our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But children remain captive audiences and trapped subjects of the State where bureaucrats inculcate them every day with "ape mentality." The Holy Bible states that children are a gift from God. What State-monopoly public schools are perpetrating is such a gross degradation of the human family that it engenders mortified self-esteem, subconscious suicidal ideation and externally expressed self-hate or death wish, due to the possession of an animalistic self-image and a destructive self-concept.
It was not always so. We must remember that it was not until the 1920's, in the aftermath of the Stokes Trial, that State-controlled public schools began to teach the theory of evolution, as social darwinism became a part of its regular curriculum. In its extreme form, "ape indoctrination" has climaxed into this general theme we continuously hear in "Holly-jungle" movies - "the monkey with the most toys wins." It's an evil disgrace to think that this is what human life in America has been reduced to - "a monkey existing just to accumulate things?"
But in every neighborhood, churches are still alive and vibrant with the Word of God, to elevate the human spirit to the heights of good judgment regarding the way human beings ought to live, in accordance with God's moral commandments. We must thunderously say NO to "ape origin," and rise in moral indignation to reaffirm our authentic, genuine, true and real identity as children of God, in order to renew ourselves in the Judeo-Christian tradition, as envisioned by America's Founders, and thereby transform our social institutions into constructive bulwarks of human edification for continuum improvement of our condition "in order to form a more perfect Union."
God bless the United States of America and all its children in the name of Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior.
I don't think anyone is teaching kids that they come from apes. But it is important that schools teach science and leave religion to families and churches.
April 11, 2009 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Church and State are to be separate entities.
There is (i.e.) no viable basis for the beliefs of Christian v. Jewish doctrine to be part of public education. Or any specific religious orientation. (Freedom of religion sound familiar?)
All people of varied denominations and beliefs are required to pay taxes which support our public education system.
I am a Christian, but strongly object to the intersection of Church and State whether it be our schools or other public programs.
April 11, 2009 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Maybe We Can Blame This One . . .
On the public school system, Holly-jungle" movies and the Easter Bunny . . .
~OGD~
April 12, 2009 12:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
And there is proof backing up we are created in the image and likeness of a yet unproved deity and therefore it should be taught in place of evolution?
April 12, 2009 12:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Watch this...it is sure to offend.
I wish the Christian types would have listened to the message of Christ a bit more (love, compassion, don't judge lest ye be judged, etc.) and stopped worrying about increasing their worldly power.
The camel and the eye of a needle...
April 12, 2009 12:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Right on!
April 12, 2009 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Know what really tends to make these holy rollers irate Lis? When I tell them if God does actually does exist she really does love us, which if she does exist I truly believe...many of them start having conniptions at that point. ;-)
April 12, 2009 1:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
I know where you're coming from prudent1. I too, am an old fashioned kind of guy.
April 12, 2009 1:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is not quite subtle enough to be a truly accomplished troll (the mention of the second law as a feint in the other post, for example, is just a bit too obvious).
Mr. Madison, on the subject of religion.
April 12, 2009 1:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
I am accosted daily on the street by pious misanthropes asking me if I have accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I live in a state where arguments to provide funding for the education of my child are elbowed off the front page by protestors decrying the urgent need to print "I Believe" on our license plates. I pass over twenty churches on my way home from work, yet many maintain their religious freedom is under threat.
Despite this endless pontificating, the rates of domestic violence, divorce and teen pregnancy in my state are among the highest in the nation. Don't blame evolution, pal. Your problem is much closer to home.
April 12, 2009 2:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is not open to trivial quibbling. Apes are our ancestors. what that means spiritually is another question. Our physique is obviously very similar, our chromosomes essentially identical to the eye as seen through ordinary microscopes, and our DNA is nearly identical. Ape metabolism and emotions, mating strategies and social dynamics, diet and diseases, are what we share with our cousins, the great apes, mainly chimps. Even some moral basics, like a desire for fairness, are seen in ape behavior.
But they don't argue in print. We are different, in that we can care about the possible extinction of the great apes, while they apparently don't worry about our health.
Please read this study on social health, things like suicide and divorce, published in the (Jesuit) Creighton University's Journal of Religion and Society: "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies"---Gregory S. Paul
http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html
April 12, 2009 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Below, T.
April 12, 2009 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know many chimpanzees personally, and I'd rather have them as relatives than many of the humans I've had the displeasure of knowing. It is time creationists abandon the anthropocentric view of phylogenetic classifications putting man apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. But I suppose getting you to believe that you are of the same biological family as chimps and gorillas is like trying to convince me of the resurrection. Happy Easter Leo.
April 12, 2009 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Increasing scientific evidence supports that genetic similarity has little bearing on the biological and behavioral disparity between humans and chimpanzees. Instead, what matters is the way genes are used (gene expression).
For example, one study demonstrated that the co-expression patterns of genes for humans and chimpanzees differ considerably in the cerebral cortex, but are largely similar in sub-cortical regions.
Another study indicates that human and chimp genomes vary in micro-RNA (molecules that regulate gene expression) content.
The way genes are regulated and expressed corresponds to profound dissimilarities in human and chimpanzee brain structures and cognitive abilities (behavior), serving to explain the crucial differences between humans and the great apes.
Michael C. Oldham, Steve Horvath, and Daniel H. Geschwind, “Conservation and Evolution of Gene Coexpression Networks in Human and Chimpanzee Brains,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103 (2006): 17973-78.
Eugene Berezikov et al., “Diversity of Micro-RNAs in Human and Chimpanzee Brain,” Nature Genetics 38 (2006): 1375-77.
April 12, 2009 6:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, the apparent similarity is open to adjusting, and depend hugely on expression, and also on just what is a gene. The point is that the similarities greatly outweigh the differences, and we must be very closely related to the chimp branch. Differences in micro-RNA would be presumably present between other species of mammals that we do not argue about re shared ancestry.
The jump to humans is very large in some ways, very small in others.
April 12, 2009 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have had the opportunity to discuss these things with several doctors (MDs) who are well versed in pharmaceutical research and development, and they have confirmed to me that human beings are anatomically and immunologically closer to the pigs/swines/hogs than to the apes; and that's why most (legal) drugs are tested upon pigs rather than apes. (Pigs get "swine flu, as humans get the flu also). And this contradicts the evolutionist conjecture that we "descended from apes." In addition, the first law of Bio-genesis states that life comes from life OF THE SAME KIND (no so-called "missing links" need apply.) Thanks. With our Lord's blessings. LEO
April 13, 2009 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
There seems to be an ongoing national debate about the genetic similarities between chimps and humans. This data is being used as an argument against invasive biomedical on an estimated 1000 chimpanzees still involved in research. These social, intelligent and complex animals are kept in isolation, subjected to painful and fear inducing protocols and suffer emotional and physical harm. I know this because I take care of these animals when they are released from the laboratories supported by your tax dollars.. I urge everyone reading this blog to please visit:
www.releasechimps.org
thanks
bella
April 12, 2009 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the heads up to releasechimps.org. A great website, I didn't know about. Here's another group a friend of mine works for that's involved in repatriating lab chimps to social groups that eventually get to live outside often for the first time in their lives.
April 13, 2009 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink