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Hello, my name is Lewis Loflin. I'm a 50-year-old veteran of the US Army and have been married for 23 years. I'm a small property owner, taxpayer, gun owner, and I even have a dog and several cats. I support America and our system of democracy, religious and personal freedom, science, secular government. I'm also political independent and my hobbies are electronics, history, and religion. I'm a classical Deist/Unitarian.

I live in Washington County, Virginia between Mendota and Bristol TN/VA and a few miles from the Tennessee state line in Sullivan County. I'm a former resident of Sullivan County and Bristol, Tennessee. I'm also a part-time college instructor and volunteer tutor for disadvantaged kids and help adults obtain a GED. Besides promoting education, I'm also an advocate for working class issues for better wages in my community and for open government in the Bristol, Virginia area.

Celebrating 10 Years

In the ten years this website has been up I've covered a number of issues, starting in 2008 there will be big changes. The community has changed greatly over ten years and many of the original controversies and problems no longer apply. Some positive changes have also occurred here, so in fairness I will give them credit where it's due. The East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia regions are still dogged by political corruption, nepotism, low education levels driven by massive out-migration of talent, and government as a profitable industry for the politically connected. The Religious right isn't as prominent today, but the welfare Left has taken its place. More and more residents are being robbed of their personal liberties by a gaggle of elite "useful idiots." So I take on both sides in these issues.

My wife is disabled and uninsurable, so we are forced onto Medicaid to keep her alive. We were told by social services to get a divorce, or else stop working and live on government handouts. We did neither. I still hold a full time job, but was forced to take a massive pay cut to maintain eligibility for her medical care I can't possibly afford. We refuse to be thrown under the welfare train wreck and in no manner will we get divorced and just live together. We make own way, but we could write volumes about how destructive government programs can be to those trapped on them. We consider ourselves lucky and we have it far better than many others. We don't "milk" the system nor are we destroyed by it.

I'm not here to let the so-called "poor" off either as I once did. I have worked with them and tried to help them out. I saw first hand what happens to those that never learn to handle their problems (at least to the best of their ability), and they found out how much the government really helps them. Many of their problems were self-inflicted because they knew nothing other than dependence. They need to learn how to fish, not wait for a welfare check to buy fish sticks.

Other issues. This website and writer have been quoted in the Richmond Times Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Kingsport Times-News, and Bristol Herald Courier.

Note that we will again be covering local events. New for June 2008. See Social Apartheid in Bristol VA/TN

Crime

I'll be focusing on crime and illegal immigration and its cost to everyday citizens. This is not about race, it's about the negative impact of illegal immigration on working class America the elite class, wealthy whites, both Republican and Democrat alike, just don't give a damn about.

On Religion

There is a great deal of material on this site in regards to religion, in particular subjects related to rational monotheism. While rejecting Christian theology as a form of Gnosticism (Gnosticism is not used as an attack), I'm not anti-Christian. This is a skeptic site, but that also includes equal treatment of radical Islam, and secular pseudo-theologies such as socialism/Marxism, radical environmentalism. Those I do oppose and do so openly. They are a threat to our freedoms, Christianity is not. They are as irrational as the ravings of Pat Robertson. This includes all form of racist, left-wing "liberation theology." Go to the bottom of this page to see a list of articles or click here to view the antics in Sullivan County, TN.

Overview of Religion
Deism Christianity Judaism Islam Gnosticism Unitarianism
Zoroastrianism Pantheism Fundamentalism Evolution Original Sin Trinity
End Times Apostle Paul Apostle John John Calvin St. Augustine Pelagius
Martin Luther Real Jesus Identity Willie Martin Royal Race Pat Robertson

Also see New Age Religion and What is paganism?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. May 15, 2008 (AP) - A proposal that would allow the state Department of Education to develop a curriculum for the academic study of the Bible in public schools is on its way to the governor's desk...

Ten years ago I would have been on the side of banning the Bible, but here is my view today as submitted as a letter to the editor. My views are keep all religion out of schools, politics and religion out of science.

Re: Teaching the Bible in Public Schools. As one who openly opposed hanging the Ten Commandments in the Sullivan County Courthouse, and who has written openly against Christian theology in the Herald Courier, I say yes, teach the Bible in school. Shocked? Here's why:

First, many schools are teaching a white-washed introduction to Islam, a violent religion far worse than anything today outside Marxism. Christians don't practice violence, outside an occasional lone individual. Islam openly teaches violence against non-believers.

Second, school material in general is highly anti-Christian, with underlying tones of Marxism, liberation theology, and Humanism. If they want to promote these pseudo-religions, it's only fair Christians get an equal hearing.

Third, so-called "environmentalism" is another pseudo-religion, an irrational, pagan earth-worship that holds Nature as somehow divine and is equal to man, a theological view. This pantheist/New Age nonsense too holds many anti-Christian undertones and it's followers are often just religious fanatics that misuse science to promote a political/religious agenda.

Finally, the misuse of evolution to undermine the Christian faith. I'm an evolutionist myself, but the evidence is clear there's no "natural" mechanism to explain the Creation of the universe. And I do mean Creation unless one can supply verifiable scientific proof the atheist view is correct. There is none. They need to teach the scientific method so one understands just what a "theory" really means in science. Darwin believed in God, and warned when an intelligence was involved, natural selection was voided.

It's time schools get back to academics and away from politics, religion, and social engineering. But if they want to keep promoting anti-Christian and often anti-Western themes, then I must stand with Christians and demand they get equal treatment.

Religion versus Science

Closing Comment on Reason versus Revelation

After ten years of study I have come to the following conclusion: that people are born with differing understandings of reality, which I call broadly rationalists and mystics, using neither in any negative manner. We have such extreme mystics they lose contact with everyday reality, while extreme rationalism can make one blind to things they can't see. Most of us fall in between. I believe we may understand the same thing, but in a differing manner. Let's agree to meet in the center, accept our differing views, and ignore the extremes.

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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

My definition of an American:

American means rational individualism! Individual rights, not collective rights. A Constitution that protects the individual from the government, not one that grants special "rights" to individuals or groups at the expense of others.

My interview with Dogma Free America

Freethinkers and Atheists

Freethinker does not mean atheism. Militant atheists hijacked this term when it really meant those liberal theists and Deists that apply reason to religious matters. My view is we need both God and traditional values in combination with humanism and reason. Classical humanism in no manner is anti-God. So-called "secular" and religious humanism are both just atheism today. Atheists are no more evil than Christians, most Christians are not like Pat Robertson.

The Christian Reich in Sullivan County, Tennessee
Jerry Falwell, the Antichrist, attacks Jews

Question: Do Barack Obama's children attend public school? No, the Chicago Tribune sums up his answer: "My kids have gone to the University of Chicago Lab School, a private school, because I taught there," Obama responded. "It was five minutes from our house. So it was the best option for our kids." Next question, does he support forced busing of children miles from their homes just to improve the failing black schools his kids don't have to attend? Can he spell hypocrite?

White racism is not the reason for black and Hispanic failure. It's self-inflicted. Blacks, etc. are not inferior and most are good people. What they need to do is stop depending on rich white people and those with a political agenda using them as pawns in their power games. Facts are not racism and blacks, others must learn to depend on their own communities and rebuild their families. No, they are not "African-Americans," they are Americans, period.

Stop the ACLU

Getting Beyond Political Correctness

This website is aimed at Americans, in particular preserving Western Culture against Marxist' political correctness and to counter irrational American bashing. The information is presented to promote debate and alternatives ideas. These are the questions I ask:

Why does the left-wing ACLU team up with the US Chamber of Commerce along with labor unions to advance the interests of illegal aliens over legal American workers? Or we have far-left eco-extremists passing laws banning inexpensive incandescent light bulbs that's signed by a "Christian" conservative Republican president? What happened to Rule of Law and the Constitution? What is wrong when we have "war on terror" and one of the primary promoters of terrorism (Saudi Arabia and its state religion of Wahhabism) is protected, while our troops die fighting Saudis in Iraq? Why do we tolerate a racist' education agenda with No Child Left Behind? Why is anti-white racism acceptable including murder and assault, but flushing a Koran is a "hate crime?"

Hate crimes laws need to be revoked. They are not equally enforced being targeted at certain groups and ignored with others. They undermine the ideal of equal treatment under the law when an identical crime for one group is considered worse for another.

Who pays for mass illegal immigration? The working poor, mostly black, recent immigrants, and poor whites. They have no representation by anyone. The ruling class is white, uncaring, and out of touch with the typical American black, white, or otherwise. One study says White Families' Wealth Advantage Has Grown, while Paul Craig Roberts discusses costly immigration and who really benefits.

Reclaiming True Liberalism

Liberal as used in America today should be called socialism. It puts the collective good over the individual good, denies property rights, and promotes massive government control. True liberals must renounce and disassociate themselves from closet Marxists, environmental religious fanatics, etc. Any "collective" ideology undermines individual liberty, the true basis of liberalism. Classical Liberalism as practiced by Jefferson, Washington, etc. includes the following:

  1. an ethical emphasis on the individual rights over state, community, or society,
  2. the support of the right of property carried to its economic conclusion, a free-market system,
  3. the desire for a limited constitutional government to protect individuals' rights from others and from its own expansion.

Why such a rejection of socialism?

  1. Its economic and social theories are failures.
  2. It's purely political and totalitarian in nature.
  3. It operates as a pseudo-religion, producing fanatics as irrational as any religious fundamentalist.

David Horowitz gives an excellent discussion of who this "Left" really is. He calls them neo-communist. Horowitz has an excellent definition I agree with:

they are determined to intervene, regulate and control your life, or redistribute your income...the term "liberal" should be reserved for those who occupy the center of the political spectrum; those to the left should be referred to as leftists, which is what they are...

Many on the Left (however defined) are silent about the murder of 500 Russian civilians, many of them children, but screamed week after week because some terrorist at Abu Ghraib prison that had his feelings hurt. They also cared nothing about the Saudi style beheadings of 12 Nepalese cooks or the car-bomb murder of over 50 Iraqi Muslim children. Quoting Dennis Prager,

the left does not care about women, independent judiciaries, minorities, democracy, gays or almost anything else for which it marches...are noble-sounding covers for...the overthrowing of Western, especially Judeo-Christian and capitalist, values...America embodies all that the left dislikes...


Cartoon from www.coxandforkum.com.

The following was printed in the Kingsport Times-News and the Bristol Herald Courier in January 2007. Virginia state representative Virgil Goode was attacked for his refusal to pander to Islam and illegal aliens:

Re: Virgil Goode flap, liberals (leftists) again have shown themselves to be hypocrites.

Rep. Goode has every right to say what he did. He is correct that we must end illegal immigration and this racist "diversity" (or anything not white) lottery. One of those people (an Egyptian Muslim) shot up a ticket counter at LAX killing several people. In fact all Muslim immigration should be halted because of the massive violence and intolerance within the culture.

To quote an example from the Koran (9:29), "Fight those who do not believe in (Islam, Mohammed) from among the people who have been given the Scripture (Christians, Jews) until they pay the tax, willingly or unwillingly." This is an extortion tax to keep Muslims form murdering you or until you convert to Islam. Ask them why under Muslim law it's a death penalty to leave Islam.

Why does racism charges not apply to Iman Keith Ellison whom Weekly Standard (10/9) calls "Louis Farrakhan's First Congressman?" He came to Islam and still supports the Nation of Islam, a violent racist, anti-Semitic cult. They refer to black people as "original humans" and white people as sub-human. They advocate the mass murder of Jews (excuse me, Zionists.) Why is anti-white racism ok?

What about Ellison's support by the Council of Islamic American Relations? CAIR is a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah and financed by Saudi Arabia, the primary culprit behind 911.

It's time to end this racist double standard among liberals. Any criticism of Islam (a religion by the way, not a race) is loudly attacked. Yet the leftwing racist' agendas of affirmative action (unearned rewards based on race), diversity (anti-white, anti-Christian anything), and multiculturalism (anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-American) is acceptable. End the double standard.

Jews

The Wall Street Journal reports (April 22, 2002) that some colleges are recruiting Jewish students to give them higher status in terms of SAT scores. The Journal also reports that highest three groups in SATs are Unitarians, Jews, and Quakers.

I support Israel for the same reasons I support democratic Hindu India over Islamist Pakistan. Nor will I waste my time trying reason with irrational people obsessed with conspiracy theories. Jews don't seek converts, they don't rule the world or me, and I don't consider them or anyone else some special chosen anything. Jewish contributions to society are far out of proportion to their numbers. Their secret to success is the same for Unitarians, mainline Protestants, and Asian immigrants; hard work, education, and thrift.

Jews are not a race or even an ethnic group anymore than Catholics are, but a religion. A Jew is one that practices Judaism as defined by at least a belief in one G-d that reveres Moses and Torah. An atheist born of two Jewish parents is an atheist, and one who converts to Christianity is a Christian, not a Jew. Let's not get into these absurd "neo-con" and Freemasonry conspiracy theories used inter-changeably with Jews. There is no known organizations of neo-cons and is often a leftist slur. As far as Freemasonry, many of the founding ideals of America come from them. George Washington and 27 signers of the Constitution were Freemasons.

Support Denmark

by Lewis Loflin

Printed the Bristol Herald Courier February 20, 2006

Regarding this Muslim rioting and killing over some cartoons, all freedom loving people must stand with Denmark against Islamic fascism. This is further proof Islam is incompatible with civilized society and we must reconsider Muslim immigration into the West. It's time we start being "offended" by their barbaric behavior. Don't play the race card or political correctness with me. I have no problem with Arab Christians or Indian Hindus, often victims of Muslim violence as well. A play at a Christian Church in Egypt caused "offended" Muslims to riot and destroy seven churches.

I believe women have equal rights to men, Islam doesn't. In Pakistan a man murdered his stepdaughter who was accused of adultery, then murdered his other minor three daughters for "family honor." All legal in Muslim society, so where are the Liberals on this one? (AP Dec. 28) When a Muslim woman wanted to marry a Christian man, the so-called Palestinian Muslims murdered her and firebombed the entire Christian community. It's illegal for a Muslim women to marry a non-Muslim, but not vice-versa. Who says they just riot over pictures?

Muslims disseminate an endless stream of anti-Semitism and religious hate against Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists. Where's those yelling political correctness? The Left takes every opportunity to attack America, but makes excuses and blame us for Muslim violence. I don't see Christians or Hindus bombing subways or rioting.

Muslims come to the West to enjoy prosperity their own bankrupt culture could never provide, then sit in silence as savages in the name of Islam create havoc everywhere. They want us to apologize for offending them?

I posted those cartoons on my website and call on everyone to post them everywhere, including in the Herald Courier, in support of freedom. Freedom of religion, press, and expression are God-given rights, let's stand with Denmark.

Muslim Problem in Denmark
Update on Denmark
When Freedom Gets the Death Sentence for Hatin Surucu
Sister Anisah explains why Islam is good for women

 

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