TTSR Union Myths

Writing Inspired by The Thomas Sowell Reader, by Thomas Sowell, pages 71-72, Union Myths.

When a jar is not broken, you do not fix it, unless of course you are one of the many Government Unions looking to steal the contents of the jar in the name of improvement.  This is the situation of the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act”, which does not actually provide employees with more freedom but enables unions to control them. 

The way the current system works when decisions of company unionization arise is by taking an employee ballot.  The National Labor Relations Board oversees the ballot to ensure that it is fraud free and that a person’s vote is kept completely confidential unless that person shares his decision with others.  In the new “Employee Free Choice Act”, a union does not need to win a ballot to gain control over a business; they simply need to collect enough signed cards to have a majority.

Since the first Presidential election in 1788 ^[1], the purpose of elections has been to enable voters freedom of choice without fear or coercion.  This freedom is loathsome to the unions because it allows workers the choice to refuse unionization in their workplace.

In the world of “Employee Free Choice”, the unions will have the power to harass citizens into signing them in for multiple terms since most people will give in to per pressure or other forms of intimidation.   Therefore, the union has the ability to force its way into office.  It might still be expected of the union to serve the people by doing their job of organizing and helping the workforce, but the union’s wonderful work can be seen in the way they siphon money off the businesses that provide a living for hundreds of people.  Unions do not make money, for businesses or for themselves, but take it from tax paying workers, although there is a limit to how long they can siphon it.

The president of the United Mine Workers from 1920 to 1960, John L. Lewis ^[2], was the most famous union worker of his time because of his increased wages and new job benefits for coal miners.  Although the workers could not have gained these advantages through the free market, they came at a cost.

Between the high wages and the strain on the coal supply, prices went up, causing many businesses and homes to switch to oil.  This caused many coal miners to lose their jobs and even more when the high wages increased the incentive to replace workers with machines.

The end result by the 1960s was a huge decline in the employment of coal workers, leaving many mining towns desolate and virtually abandoned.  

Four years after John Lewis retired, on September 14, 1964, he was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom that read "[An] eloquent spokesman of labor, [Lewis] has given voice to the aspirations of the industrial workers of the country and led the cause of free trade unions within a healthy system of free enterprise."^[3]

Even when unions are utterly and completely failing, they still stop to congratulate themselves for the wonderful difference they are making in the lives of the unionized workers.

[1]Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMWA

[2] Wikipedia: Lewishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Lewis

[3] "John L. Lewis". Retrieved July 23, 2011.

TTSR One-Stage Thinking

Comments on The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 69-70, One-Stage Thinking.

In our busy lives, how many of us stop to think about the future results of our current action?  How many times have you wished to change a decision because of unforeseen consequences?  The importance of thinking ahead cannot be overstated, for the lack of it produces poor choices and even worse outcomes. 

The question “What will happen after that”, helps us to look past the short-term benefits and into the long-term outcomes.  Asking this several times will dig even deeper into the possible future outcomes to expose minor and major problems. 

All the time, people make dreadful decisions based on current circumstances that are not sustainable.  In Zimbabwe, the government issued serious price cutbacks in June of 2007.  The people enjoyed the bounties of this decree during a short-lived shopping spree.  After that, the market halted and devastation hit.  The later benefits were clearly described:

  “Bread, sugar, and cornmeal, staples of every Zimbabwean’s diet, have vanished…Meat is virtually nonexistent, even for members of the middle class who have money to buy it on the black market…Hospital patients are dying for lack of basic medical supplies.” ^[1]

What the decision makers failed to consider was that suppliers usually meet a high demand with a high output but when the demand is low, the output slows to a low.  The supplier has difficulty functioning with a low demand and forcibly low prices because his profits may be too low to acquire the materials for his output or it may not be worth his effort to be a supplier anymore.  This is not a confusing principle, especially for people trained in economics.  Yet, this shortsighted decision still happened and for just that reason, it was short sighted and not properly thought out, if it was thought out at all beyond the first wave of benefits.

[1] Michael Wines, “Caps on Prices Only Deepen Zimbabweans’ Misery,” New York Times, August 2, 2007. Pp. A1, A8.

 “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

― Benjamin Franklin

Lamentations 1:9  

“Her uncleanness was in her skirts;

she took no thought of her future;

therefore her fall is terrible;

she has no comforter.”

Proverbs 15:22

“Without counsel plans fail,

but with many advisers they succeed.”

Acts 24:2  

“…Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,”

TTSR Anti-American Americans

Comments on The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 60-61, Anti-American Americans.

Some of the most complicated and difficult things to ponder, outside the topic of religion, are alternate choices in history.  Some Americans  say we should not have bombed Japan in World War II but are they considering the alternatives.  If atomic bombs Little Boy and Fat Man were not used to defeat and bring Japan to a complete surrender, would the alternate war endings be any better than the real one?  If an invasion was attempted, American and British troops would have met harsh opposition on the landing beaches and in civilian homes.  Besides having military troops, the Japanese were training and propagating civilians, children included, to die defending their homeland.  Even if by some miracle the Allies losses were not astronomical, Japan would still have suffered great casualties from combat and suicide.   As it was, 90,000–166,000 Japanese were killed in Hiroshima ^[1] and 60,000–80,000 were killed in Nagasaki ^[1] while the Allies suffered zero casualties.

We can theorize and calculate statistics of the ‘what if’ scenarios but we can never know what things would be like if the atomic bombs had never been dropped. 

[1] "Frequently Asked Questions #1". Radiation Effects Research Foundation. Archived from the original on 19 September 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2007.

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

-Albert Einstein

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

-Albert Einstein

TTSR Mascots Of The Anointed

Comments on The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 57-59, Mascots Of The Anointed.

A recent New York Times article ^[1], that told the sympathetic story of fading prison inmates, had more purpose than just enlightening its readers.  This article was centered on Allen Jacobs, sentenced to two to four years of prison at the Coxackie Correctional Facility in New York City for passing forged checks.  Jacobs lived life hard for fifty years and now, due to his liver failure, he faces a fate he never wanted, death in prison.  While one of the facilities volunteers was with him he broke down crying and explained how much he did not want to die in Jail.  Of course he did not want to die in jail, but it was his choices that lead him to poor health and a prison sentence.

Stories like this are circulating the news constantly.  Although they do encourage people to take action for change, many articles have a twist.  One of these reports started out about releasing handicapped and sick convicts and it ended by advocating prison inmates over fifty be released.   The night and day difference between releasing criminals who are weak, dying, or impaired as to releasing healthy criminals who are hiding under the umbrella of age is appalling.  I’ve seen my eighty-year-old Grandfather shoot clay pigeons dead-on with a shotgun.  Fifty-year-olds are not going to have any trouble causing trouble, but that is all hidden under the mascot’s costume.

So why are the Anointed ^(*) taking pains to publicize the unfortunate circumstances of others?  Because those whom society has condemned---criminals, illegal aliens, bums, ect.--- are eligible to become mascots for the Anointed, symbols of their superior knowledge and overflowing goodness.  By showing concern for those society shuns, they think themselves morally superior to the rest of us. 

Is it worth all this?  To them it is of the most importance.  Abraham Lincoln said that the greatest danger to the future of the United States was not from foreign enemies, but from the class of people which “Thirsts and burns for distinction.”

Now, after you have read this, and seen an example of the Anointed’s use of these people, will you question whether the News you read and shows you watch are setups for the Anointed’s distinction?

[1]  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/health/18hospice.html

(*)  “The Anointed” refers to those that have bestowed on themselves special regard, higher authority, and greater insight.  Those three things make up who the anointed see themselves as.

 “Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”

― Thomas Sowell

Proverbs 26:16  

“The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes

than seven men who can answer sensibly.”

Psalm 64:5  

“They hold fast to their evil purpose;

they talk of laying snares secretly,

thinking, “Who can see them?””

TTSR Little Things

Writing inspired by The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 54-56, Little Things.

Is it a reasonable expectation for the younger generation, children in elementary school, to grow into respectful, law-abiding adults?  Most people would say yes, but if they really thought about it and knew what is being expected of and taught to these young children, they might not. 

I was shopping at a mall recently when I noticed some parents explaining to their daughter that they would not see Santa that day.  The little girl stomped her feet and became very angry, yet, the parents did nothing.  They kept walking through the store as if nothing was wrong.  I have to wonder whether the parents care about training or disciplining their daughter, but either way, doing nothing will get the same results as not caring.  If that little girl turns into to an unruly teenager, her parents will probably ask themselves “What happened?”

At just about any time of day, you can see rebellious teens on TV.  On an episode of “World’s Strictest Parents” I saw a teenager refuse to eat with his family.  His mother asked him nicely, and he refused, she reasoned with him and he rudely walked away.   There was no firmness, no authority, and no discipline yet the parents wondered “Why are they like this?”  The teen commented later “She doesn’t understand me or why I’m doing what I am and I can’t explain it.” Bad behavior like this does not appear overnight.  It all starts with just a few incidents that were not properly corrected.

If you did not discipline your toddler and he became troublesome, would you send him away during the day to be the responsibility of a schoolteacher?  Many parents do, thinking that the teachers will straighten them out.  Teachers do not want to deal with wild children any more than the parents do.  Some teachers will try to help them; some will look the other way.  At the end of the day, it is not a teacher’s job to imprint their own ideals of obedience upon students.  

The day that parents leave their role as a parent to teachers is a sad day indeed, but why should we be surprised?  Those parents were probably raised in a very similar way, being sent to school to become the responsibility of a tax funded teachers union, therefore, the cycle is repeated.

Proverbs 22:15  

“Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,

but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.”

Proverbs 23:13  

“Do not withhold discipline from a child;

if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.”

Proverbs 29:15  

“The rod and reproof give wisdom,

but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.”

TTSR Meaningless “Equality"

Comments on The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 51-53, Meaningless "Equality"

In the abundance of a politician’s vocabulary, ‘Equality’ seems to be used most in matters where it is completely inapplicable.  For equality to be honestly discussed, the subjects must be commensurable ^[*] which in most cases, they are not. 

Conflict between men and women for equal rights has been about equality the whole time, but did any of the campaigners for women’s equality ever stop to consider that men and woman are not commensurable?  If they did, they would see that no matter how men and women are treated, they are never going to be equals.  First of all, God created man first and then woman to be man’s helper.  Secondly, women are the reproducers of the human race.  They cannot do it independently but men cannot even try.  Men will never know what it is like for a woman to go through nine months of an emotional roller costar, and that is just the beginning.  After a baby is born it needs constant care from its mother that a father cannot provide.  In short, men give up nothing for a person to be born, while women sacrifice a part of their lives.  Totally incommensurable.

So then, lets take an example of an equality struggle that is commensurable, like Northern Europe vs. Southern Europe.  Northern Europe has been ahead of Southern Europe for centuries industrially and technologically.  They were not always this way though.  Before Northern Europe’s time of glory, the South was the dominant power.  It was the desire to surpass their rival that helped the North achieve such advances.  These two are commensurable because both can be held to the same standards.

Similarly, a century ago Japan was inferior to the West as far as their productive capabilities.  No one felt this more than the Japanese themselves, but that feeling of inferiority was what drove them to improvement.  A country is like a person.   He will not rise to prominence through meaningless debates or pointless speeches.  There must be a purpose or a goal that people desire for a nation to prosper.

[*] Measurable by the same standard. Two concepts or things are commensurable if they are measurable or comparable by a common standard.

TTSR Love Is A Four Letter Word

Writing inspired by The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 48-50, Love Is A Four Letter Word.

To love someone is to have a deep feeling of affection, such that you would sacrifice greatly for them, but today, ‘Love’ can be interpreted any number of different ways.  It has become an over used and desensitized description word without further meaning than to like something.  To say, “I love him” would communicate that someone is in love if their definition of love is the same as the dictionary’s.  However, this statement is used multiple times by almost every teenage girl when referring to a movie star or someone they think is cool.  This meaning of love is now shallow and vain.

Even with the right understanding of love’s meaning, it is still misunderstood for the feelings that come from physical contact.  Lovemaking, although it is the joining of two people in marriage, has become so stereotypical to the world.  It is not even looked upon as something special because of the way it is talked about and the way is it abused. 

Lovemaking alone cannot even keep up the human race because babies need to feel loved to live.   Scientists do not know exactly how an infant senses love but part of it is through sense of touch and hearing.   A study was done in China where one hundred orphaned babies were taken off the street and taken care of.  Fifty of them were held, stroked, and spoken to along with all the basic needs.  The other fifty were given only basic care of feeding and changing without any physical or verbal attention.  All fifty of the ‘unloved’ babies died. 

What then is love?

True love is what Jesus Christ did for us when he died on the cross for our sins.  Paul the apostle wrote to the Corinthians, “Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy or boast.  It is not arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way.  It is not irritable or resentful.  It does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never fails.^[1]”

[1] Paul the Apostle, 1Corinthians 13:4-7

TTSR Wars Over Values

Comments on The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 45-47, Wars Over Values

We talk of world peace and of wars fought in distant countries but the truth is, cultural warfare is being fought all around us invisibly.  The aggressors in this war claim to want social equality and prosperity, while their true desire is to gain power and recognition among the simple, something not hard to do when government lies are taught as truth. 

For example, there is a feminist movement pushing to gain equal ‘rights’ for women in military combat, but the leaders of this movement are not campaigning so that women can physically fight in battle.  What they are after is a position of authority where they can make the decision.

In the tax arena, the Federal Government now chooses where tax funds are channeled no matter what the actual tax payers want it spent on.  On March 19th 2011, over two thousand people gathered on the steps of the Alberta Legislature to protest Alberta’s Education Minister, Thomas Lukaszuk’s new Education Act to restrict parents from teaching their children academically that homosexual lifestyles are sinful.  In spite of the upset citizens, who fund his salary, the Education Minister smilingly told them that they shared the same goals, and the bill would not be changed.  The bill did not go through, however, not because Thomas Lukaszuk listened to the people, but because of the upcoming election.
 
It did not matter whether parents could teach their children about homosexual lifestyles or not, the underlying reason was to gain authority over Home Schooled families.  The government recognizes that Home Schoolers are removed from the propaganda and control that exists in government schools.  This bill would have given the government more authority than that of parents and it would have opened the door to government control over Home School families.  When the Government sees something it does not control, it seeks to gain dominion over it and to restrain it with systems, laws, and so called “Rights”.
  

Late To Speak

      The world’s most renowned German scientist, Albert Einstein, is considered to have had the highest level of intelligence ever.  But, while many are aware of his genius, few know about the area in which he struggled. Learning to speak was a major challenge for him that turned into his first great achievement.

     As a sibling of a late speaker, I know how distressing it can be to have a loved one with feelings and ideas be unable to verbally express them.  I wanted to help my younger brother but he seldom responded to my word games.  For years he made very little progress and even now is still learning, but his speaking ability has greatly improved.

     Neurobiologists have done research on Einstein’s brain that suggests the systematic

thinking part of his brain expanded its boundaries and reached into other sections of the brain, particularly the portion controlling speech (Broca).  This has led some scientists to believe his delayed talking and his brilliance were connected.

This brain condition, although very rear, it is not unheard of. Dictator Benito Mussolini, Self-taught Mathematician Ramanujan, Nobel Prizewinner Gary Becker and pianist Arthur Rubinstein were all late speakers that are suspected of having Einstein’s brain condition

Exodus 4:11

“Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?”

Matthew 15:30 


”And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them”

TTSR Foreign Domestics

Writing Inspired by The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 39-40, Foreign Domestics

Canada’s Minister of Finances, Jim Flaherty, made the controversial statement “There are no bad jobs, the only bad job is not having a job [1],” on May 15th, 2012.

There may be dangerous jobs and there may be unpleasant jobs, but there are no bad jobs. If you consider that we have a free job market where we choose to work or not, there can be no bad jobs because every working person is doing so of his own accord. The person may not like his position, but he obviously is willing to make the exchange of his time for the employer’s money or he would be out looking for another job.

People can complain all day that there are no jobs out there but what they really mean is that there are no jobs that they want to do. I recently heard of a road contractor offering a flagging job that would pay twenty-five dollars an hour and require no previous experience. He was unable to fill the position because cell phone use was not permitted on the job.

Besides being unwilling to give up certain comforts, people are not willing to work because many readily available jobs are looked down upon as lowly and dishonorable places of employment. Restaurants like McDonalds are not considered honorable places to work but they do bring a stream of income. For a college graduate, working at Subway is not what he planned but it is better than wondering what to do while his debts increase.

The American entrepreneur and blogger of The Art of Non-Conformity, Chris Guillebeau once said, “Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.”

[1] Flaherty, James M, CBC NEWS Toronto, May 15, 2012.

TTSR Instructing The Instructors

Comments on the The Thomas Sowell Reader, pages 33-34, Instructing the Instructor

     How many times have you read through manuals and called 1-800 numbers for technical ‘help’?   The first time I took an instruction book seriously was with my brand new TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator.  Learning how to operate that machine was harder than learning grade 12 math because the manual was written so incompetently.   There was more emphasis on how great the features were than on how to use those features.  Also, the organization of the whole book, which was bigger than the New Testament, was in total disarray.  In front of the table of contents there was information regarding radio frequency interference.  In order to learn one function thoroughly, I had to jump from section to section. 

     The TI 89 can do more calculations than a college Mathematician, but because of the poorly written guidebook, owners cannot access its full potential.  Bad manuals like this have become so common that I have to wonder where all the good writers have gone?  A company as big as Texas Instruments should be able to find at least a few good technical writers.  If they did, maybe their customers would feel as appreciated as the telephone recordings say they are.

If I come across another manual like this one, I think I'll take the Tim Hawkins approach.

TTSR Autism "Curse"?

Comments on The Thomas Sowell Reader, Pages 31-32,  Autism “Curse”?

     I think that the autism spectrum allows doctors to misdiagnose without being at fault.   They use this system that makes room for ‘permissive error’ so they don’t get blamed for the unnecessary treatment of normal children.  If parents of a falsely diagnosed child confronted their doctor after undergoing expensive medical care, what would he say?  My guess is that he would blame the system for his error rather than take responsibility.  In the end, the parents would be overjoyed that there child did not have autism, but there would be no restitution for the thousands of dollars spent on pointless therapy.

     After I did more research on the Autism Spectrum, I found that in all the articles and websites describing how it worked, there was no information about who made it.  Curious, that this information was not easy to find, being that it is considered ‘the way’ to tell if a child is autistic or not.  

TTSR Animal Rites

Discussion on The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell, Animal Rites

     There seems to be no limit to the childishness that some adults show, particularly those in Palo Alto, California.  There was a cougar incident there a few years ago when a wild cat made his way into a residential area and up a tree.  This might not have been as big a problem if there had not been a nearby school about to let out and if there had not been a recent horse mauling in this same area.  A policeman, fearing for the public’s safety, shot and killed the mountain lion. 

     This did not go over well with the residents being that many of them thought the officer ”murdered” the gorgeous creature.  The police agency was flooded with angry callers and e-mails from people who had seen news footage of the lion peacefully lolling in a tree before his death [1].  True, he was just peacefully waiting in that tree like most cats do before they attack their prey, which in this case could have been a young student.  

     Now there is a makeshift shrine with flowers, cards, and photos marking the place where the mountain lion died.  Many protesters believe that the cat should have ‘had a chance’ by easily being tranquilized and relocated. These people did not offer any helpful hints as to how you ‘easily’ sedate a feral predator.  

       Not long before this, there was another cougar episode where the police tried to tranquilize three cubs.  They missed two out of three shots on one kitten [2].  

     What if a sedative had been shot at the full-grown cougar and missed?   Would there have been time to take another shot before the cat pounced on one of the many children exiting school?

     Some parents of small children think the police were right in shooting the mountain lion.  “There are still some pockets of sanity, even in Palo Alto.”

Sowell, Thomas. The Thomas Sowell Reader.  United States of America: Basic Books, 2011.

[1] Thomas, Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader, (United States of America: Basic Books, 2011) 20

[2] Thomas, Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader, (United States of America: Basic Books, 2011) 21

Genesis 1:26  “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.””

Genesis 1:28
”And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””

Psalm 8:6  “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,”

       I recently watched a video of animal protesters talking about how we (cougars and humans) should live together in ‘peace’.  Now, mountain lions are very reclusive creatures, but they are known to attacked people occasionally.  Many animal advocates choose to ignore that.

     To me, cougars are one of God’s most enthralling creatures.  They represent agility, ferocity, cunning, and grace.  I simply believe that if there is ever a situation where people are being threatened by an animal, it needs to be dealt with by whatever means necessary. 

TTSR Twisted History

Discussion on The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell, Twisted History 

  

     One reason why our children do not measure up with those in other countries is because precious classroom time is spent twisting American history.  They hear things like “How would you feel if you were a Native American who saw the European invaders taking away you land?”.  This question makes kids look at the past with ignorant assumptions of the present.  You see, today we take it for granted that it is ‘wrong to take other peoples land’.  That was not the way the Native Americans or the Europeans saw things.  Battles were what settled land boundaries and other disputes.  The Asian, Africans, Arabs and others thought the same way too.  The Native Americans doubtless did not want to lose their territory, but that is different from not wanting to fight for it.

     Today’s child cannot possibly put himself or herself in the mindset of Indians centuries ago, without infinitely more knowledge of history than our schools have ever taught ^[1].  

     Comprehension however, is not the reason for such a question.  It is asked to score points against Western society and thus, propaganda replaces education.

     Schools are not the only history twisters for ideological points.  The headline for The New York Times’s book review section in its December 14, 2004 issue was “Never Forget That They Owned Lots of Slaves”.  An indictment of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson was on the inside.

     Every race has practiced enslavement ^[A]. Even after the American blacks were freed, white people were still being enslaved in the Ottoman Empire.

     Now no one liked the idea of becoming a slave, but few had any objections to making them.  Slavery itself was not an issue until the 18^th century, and even then it was a Western issue only.  When it did become a dispute, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry were among the most outstanding freedom fighters at the time. You could research all of 18^th century Africa or Asia or the Middle East without finding any comparable rejection of slavery there ^[2].

     In 1862, the US Navy captured a full slave ship sailing from Africa to Cuba.  The crew was imprisoned and the captain was hung in the United State because of his violation of the ban on international slave trade.  At this time slavery was still legal in both Africa and Cuba ^[A]. This tells us that enslavement was such an absolute abomination to Americans at this time. 

     Even though the US had an answer for enslavement, they did not have an answer to the millions of slaves they already had. That answer finally came in the Revolutionary War where one life was lost for every six that were freed ^[B].  Perhaps that was the only way.  “But don’t pretend today that it was an easy answer--- or that those who grappled with the dilemma in the 18^th century were some special villains, when most leaders and most people around the world at that time saw nothing wrong with slaver.”

Sowell, Thomas. The Thomas Sowell Reader.  United States of America: Basic Books, 2011.

^{[1][A] Thomas, Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader, (United States of America: Basic Books, 2011) 18}

^{[2][A][B] Thomas, Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader, (United States of America: Basic Books, 2011) 19}

2 Peter 3:16  “…There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.”

2 Chronicles 14:6  “He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the Lord gave him peace.”

John 8:34  “Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.””

Galatians 4:7 
”So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.”

Psalm 5:6

”You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.”


Proverbs 22:6  ”Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”