I wondered what democracy is. You might have though that it is based on the fact that if the majority of people want something then it is made so. Doesn't seem to be true though. I heard today that the government are planning to flood Google search results with non-extreme Islamic sites so that hardline ones are harder to find. The government really don't understand do they? If people in certain Muslim countries want to be hard-liners don't they have the right to do that? Isn't that democracy (as long as they don't commit crimes in other countries of course). What if they don't want democracy and want a dictator to rule everything to keep order, are they not entitled to that? What about if we all don't want the Iraq invasion, is that what happens? What happens if Christians want to believe that evolution is not true in the sense it is often reported and that God created the world, can they not believe that?
The reality is there are lots of forces dictating exactly what you can and can't do, what you are allowed to believe and what influence you actually have on the government and society. The only difference between me and someone else is that they think they are free to do whatever and I know that people are sinful and try to fit their management or government to their own beliefs about what is and what isn't allowed.
This my friends is the knowledge of good and evil, the lack of asking God about what is what and simply deciding for ourselves. It's not like we really know anything about the world at the end of the day - whoever we are.
1 comment:
the muslim search results... How ridiculous! Talk about feeding the hand that bites you! At the end of the day, so long as there is so-called 'freedom of expression' in web 2.0 where we, the people, are contributors, not merely receivers of information, then these sites will be constructed and found. There is no point hiding them, what needs to occur is education and the restoration of morals and values within that!
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