Core Corruption

How do Muslims witness the success of Western, secular societies, and continue to promote the spread of their mind-numbing faith? How do contemporary socialists maintain their advocacy of economic ideas that have failed repeatedly across the globe resulting in statism, poverty, and genocide? How do Christians reconcile their brutal history with their present-day claims to be the fountain of morality and compassion?

They ignore history. Christians argue, for example, that any corruption within the church hierarchy is caused by corrupt men, not a corrupt religion. To be sure, when individuals err, it is the individual who is responsible for the failure and it is the individual who should be held to account. But, what brought them there? What caused their corruption?

Their irrational philosophy. Their irrational code of ethics.

Christians damn man a wretch and a sinner upon drawing his first breath;

They ascribe any personal failing—even criminal pedophilia—to their wicked, evil human flesh;

They welcome disgrace, relish the suffering of their just punishment, beg pardon, and thank God when they are once again accepted back into the flock;

They beg [and in their minds, receive] forgiveness from the Lord. They go on to preach the goodness of the Lord’s forgiveness and their own imagined redemption. The damage done to their victims festers unabated;

Christians and Muslims believe their wishes have the power of creation;

They damn liberty promoting authoritarian government consistent with the teachings of their irrational faith;

They fail to acknowledge the immutability of the laws of nature;

They deny the validity of science;

They herd men into packs of passive followers of ancient missives;

They fail to recognize the anti-human, anti-life teachings of their altruist code;

They damn man’s best efforts to live a good life on Earth and damn the result of his hard-earned success “selfish;”

They [especially Muslims] hold unhealthy, pejorative, ugly views regarding human sexuality;

They forgive every evil and believe their God will do the same for them;

They worship death.

So, when I see our prisons fill up with believers, and Christians and Muslims committing atrocities across the globe, I am not surprised. Those of you who think the world is a mess, you must understand, this is the world your philosophy has created. Most people are religionists! Altruist-Collectivists. The problems in this world are a direct result of the ideas you promote, not mine. People with views anything like mine are a tiny minority world-wide, never elected, seldom heard.

If my advocacy of Egoism, Objectivism, [and soon] Capitalism, is extreme that is because I’m sure I have found the answers: liberty and reason. I am trying to be heard over the mass of people who bombard me daily with the irrational, majority view: duty and faith. You don’t notice the assault because you’re in the cockpit with the bombardiers.

I cannot watch the news or any Hollywood movie without being hit over the head with the altruist-collectivist messages the truth compels me to rail against. As I write, I am listening to FOX report that Democratic candidates for the presidency are falling all over each other, talking about God and how important faith is in their lives. They feel they have to do this in order to get elected after two Bush victories. I surf over to CNN and they’re promoting their upcoming news segment “Faces of Faith.” Our president is a Born Again crusader whose first Attorney General, John Ashcroft, is an Evangelical who goes off on weekends to watch people get “healed” and to speak in tongues. In fact, nearly half of the Republicans running for the high office in 2008 actually deny the evolution of life on Earth.

How can we educate the backward Muslim world about the right of individuals to think for themselves, if we are led by religionists who have more in common with the Taliban than with the Framers?