extreme

I have been called "extreme" for sending along every Facebook Post I do, blogging about social issues and speaking my mind on what is going on in politics and economics.

Is it not extreme...

that our government has passed legislation to allow corporations to buy government?

that we are going BACK into war with a nation that is oil rich, but a quagmire of political chaos that
      we helped create?

that we are suppressing the votes of selected citizens?

that young black men are being hunted at will on our streets?

that gay and lesbian citizens still do not have equal rights?

that people are working more than 40 hours per week and NOT making a living wage?

that others are systematically working to destroy organized labor that stands for our rights?

that in the land of "equal rights", some students have the latest and greatest available to them,
       while others have nothing of the kind?

that "religious freedom" is now defined by one groups unchecked ability to discriminate against
       others?

that grown women have men making decisions about their own bodies?

that women with the same education, experience and abilities are paid less than men for doing the
       same job?

that millions who are now getting affordable healthcare, could have it taken away, so that a very few
       in the medical and insurance industries can make billions more dollars?

that greed, lust for power and self-indulgence have become our new guiding principles for life in
       these here, United States?

that we genetically modify our food, and those who do it need not tell us the health risks?

that we are killing ourselves - our environment - the water we drink, air we breathe and land we
       inhabit, so that a few can have more profit?

that people are lied to, blatantly, by fake news networks that serve as propaganda machines for the
      political machines that drive them?

that being educated is suspect among many, while being ARMED in public is not?

that having our personal lives legislated is becoming the norm, as unchecked ownership of automatic
      weapons and ammunition, the exploitation of others economically and inequities in justice are
      not?

No.  I do not think that exposing these works of darkness is extreme.  I think that those who consider
      it "normative behavior" are extreme.

If there was ever a time when the silent majority of rational, reasonable, compassionate people
      needed to speak up, vote, demonstrate and demand justice and peace... it is NOW.

Pastor Jamie