It is with a very heavy sense of profound sadness that I look at what the world I live in has become. To watch the news on CNN a person really has to take things with the proverbial grain of salt.

We have kids getting killed, kids killing themselves after being harassed on the Internet, wars, crime and corruption everywhere, and I mean absolutely everywhere. Every government is corrupt (even ours in the US). Everyone has an agenda these days. Seems that there aren’t any real people left.

We have the democrats with their scam of health care reform. Payoffs and deals and lies. And their war with the Republicans.

We have the Republicans with there lies and their motley cast of characters. There thoughts of world take over and dark secrets. Their scandals, their wars with every non-christian group in the world. And of course, their war with the Democrats.

We have The Tea Party, who is just an uneducated group of crack pots, repeating what they hear while having no idea of the actual history of this country, led by Sarah Palin, whom is such a bumbling idiot that she couldn’t find her way back to Alaska without a GPS or a road map.  A person who doesn’t know the difference between Emancipation and constipation.

We have the Iraq lie, the Afghanistan war to employ KBR and keep millions rolling in to Dick Cheney.

We have Blackwater. We have John McCain. We have Nancy Pelosi. We have civil unrest over government policies.

We have wack job Militias for Christ that want to kill police and are so STUPID that they have a web site.

We have huge mega churches with their leaders having homosexual affairs with male prostitutes. We have the catholic church and their minions of pedophile priests, and their leaders that turn a blind eye.

We have people starving in our own streets while big churches and the government send millions to other countries. We have churches so large that their yearly budget is larger than some states, and most counties, while the states are bankrupt and can’t pay employees.

We have Cardinal Bernard Law, we have Ted Haggard, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Baker and Jim Jones. We have Father Geoghan, Rev. Lawrence Murphy, Cardinal Ratzinger and now, the Pope himself with dirty hands. I know that many will say that there are hundreds…err….thousands of child molesters that are not priest, preachers or Popes. While that is 100% true, we know not to trust our children with Ted Bundy, but one would THINK that a man of god, a man of the cloth, someone who stands in the pulpit every week and preaches on the sins of the world would hold their self to a bit of a higher standard. We expect more from these people. Criminals commit crimes, and are treated like criminals, when cops commit crimes their punishment should be 5 times more severe. The same goes for Preachers.

We the people have created all this, how proud we should be of what we have done. When I look about the world in which I live, at times I want to turn my head in shame. Are there no decent people left in this world? Is there no shame to great for man to carry? Are there no more men left that don’t want to carry shame?

As I look back at my life, which has pretty much been a colossal failure, I see so many things I wish I could have done, so many things I wish I had done different. But no, I was to busy trying to get my slice of the “American Dream”. Seems today that the American dream has turned into the American nightmare. And I wasted 40 years of my life and my time.

Someone once said to me that I just had to look around and see all the wonders of this world, a blade of grass, a mountain side, a landscape, a  child, to see the beauty of this world and know that the only way all this could be, is through god. Wish that person could see the world we live in now. If he could, he might take a different approach to things, he might realize , that if this is the world that God created, we should fire him for doing a shitty job.

Between the Government and the Churches, we just can’t do much worse. What a sad state of things we have created.   I am not a preacher or a priest, but I serve my fellow man in servitude every day. We all should.

~BW