God’s Dominion

I don’t know if you saw this article, but I thought it was interesting:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522659,00.html?test=latestnews

Apparently, this woman put up a flag in her cubicle in honor of Memorial Day.  Somebody else in the building was offended.  I don’t have a problem with our flag offending somebody….they are more than welcome to leave.  I would never bow to somebody being offended by a symbol of our country.  If they don’t like it, they can move to Canada.  I remember when after 9/11 flags were popping up everywhere.  In Berkeley, California, they didn’t let the fire department attach flags to their fire trucks because they may offend somebody.  I find it interesting that people want to come here for all the opportunity, but at the same time they are offended by this country.  You can’t have it both ways.  If America, its symbols, its beliefs, its policies, or its actions offend you, leave.  Go home.  Go to Canada.  Go to France.  Go anywhere.  My two cents.  Laterz!

So, a coworker became a US citizen a couple of weeks ago.  That got me to thinking, why do we separate ourselves so much?  We divide ourselves into nationalities, races, religions, etc.  Some are inevitable (like gender), but what is gained by dividing into nationalities? or race?  In my opinion, nothing.  If a country simply takes care of those who pay taxes there, the same number of people are paying into the kitty as getting out.  It wouldn’t surprise me if there were even fewer wars.

Then, there’s the church.  The church is even worse.  We divide ourselves into denominations and race there, too.  I’ve seen Mexican churches, Brazilian churches, “white” churches, “black” churches, Vietnamese churches (Garden Grove was 52% Vietnamese when I lived there).  We divide ourselves up more than than the world does.  I know people like to go where they’re comfortable, but Jesus was the master of making people uncomfortable.  I figure if it was important to him, it should be important to the rest of us.

Thoughts?  Laterz!