Here, dear readers, is to be found a rather random (but potentially interesting) collection of musings regarding our nation's current philosophical and political status courtesy of some of my more boring moments recently. It may be of use in discerning my sentiments and positions regarding various small and large 'issues of the day,' so to speak. Feedback, discussion, or open hostility is always welcomed!

"A system, whether political or religious, which relies upon force to suppress its own populace as a means of self-maintenance, or which justifies the use of force to expand or otherwise advocate itself beyond its current boundaries is inherently morally void and has already compromised principles for power. Such a system, regardless of all apparent virtues, has thus terminated its own moral legitimacy, and therefore its priviledge of perpetuity." ~ J. Matthew Getz

"How great a paradox, that those who practice democracy and civil liberties by pacific means at home should justify its imposition upon 'liberated' peoples abroad by the bayonet, and the bullet." ~ J. Matthew Getz, Memorial Day 2007

"Ah, the legacy of the American soldier. May we remember the hundreds of thousands of men who died repelling foreign aggression and tyranny. May we remember also that only uncompromised and vigilant adherance to our founding principles may keep us from becoming the very monsters so many died to defeat." ~ J. Matthew Getz, Memorial Day 2007

"History is a testimony to human progress. Five thousand years ago we killed each other by the hundreds. Five hundred years ago we killed each other by the thousands, and tens of thousands. One hundred years ago we killed each other by the hundreds of thousands, even unto the millions. Logically, we may thus infer that we shall see a day come to pass when progress allows us to kill each other even by the hundreds of millions, unto the billions." ~ J. Matthew Getz

"Does no one find it ironic that despite all the ink spilled and harsh words tossed over the debate of the separation between Church and State, the words 'separation,' 'church,' and 'state' do none of them so much as appear in the First Amendment to the Constitution? Indeed, it simply reads 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Strange, then, that so many debate the meaning of a phrase nonexistant within the Constitution itself." ~ J. Matthew Getz

"Roger Williams once implored we, the champions of unrestrained virtue and civil liberty tempered by law, to lift high our beacon light amidst a dark world enslaved and enchained by all manner of political and religious despots. We, he encouraged, ought to erect ourselves as a shining city on a hill, serving as a moral marker of the liberty of Jesus Christ for all mankind. How saddened he must be to see his shining beacon playing the tyrant, his virtuous city playing the whore, and his people (in whom he trusted his legacy) gladly being deceived and departing from the straight and narrow road both to the right and the left. Such is the state of our states that few even dream enough amidst their slumbers to recall his Great Awakening."

~ J. Matthew Getz