My heart is heavy tonight. I have been reflecting on how Americans would react in a time of uncertainty, my heart wants to believe we'd have each others backs, care for the weak, feed the hungry...but my mind tells me that the kindest of our kind exist today on the streets, living under cardboard boxes, and that our country's culture has bred into us a sense of indifference, every man for his own. Our gun culture would see us killing another for necessities and comforts instead of reaching a peaceful compromise. I've seen with my own eyes people walk by sick and starving people on the streets wearing $400 boots and thousand dollar handbags, I've seen overseers of parks and woods in the city that I live in tear down tent cities in unused woods vital to the survival of our homeless....NO. I've seen us cast PEOPLE out and tell them that our designer clothing and 50" televisions mean more to us than the life of a veteran of a senseless war, or a mother and her children. I've seen people say in horror and disgust "Ugh, I don't want to see that" when shown the Syrian children bloated, dead and washed ashore. We don't want to see the ugliness beyond our homes, but the key to living happily is addressing these issues and helping to make them right. Money and things beyond necessities and a few comfortable luxuries don't bring us happiness! It's scientifically PROVEN! We should be finding happiness in humanity, and healing the people around us. I just wanted to extend these thoughts.

We had a eugenics movement here in America from which Hitler took ideas and laws for the Nazi government. The premise was that the poor, the disabled, the homosexuals, certain races, should all be killed, sterilized, or allowed to die.

For example the foundress of Planned Parenthood called charity as being "counterproductive, and dangerous, for helping the poor to produce even more 'human waste.'" ( link ) And she started her organization with the help of some big names to promote abortion amongst blacks and the "unfit."

Even after the holocaust has ended, I don't think its ideas have died away, and there are people, like the makers of the Georgia Guidestones, who say that the world population should be reduced to 500,000,000. This would require 93% of the world's people to be killed. There are Malthusian organizations, and government branches that are pushing the idea of "overpopulation" and "sex ed" for the purpose of promoting contraceptives for this reason. There are even contraceptive darts that they shoot at animals from wild horses in the US to elephants in Africa whose species have been threatened or vulnerable already.

I for one think that the world instead of following the Georgia Guidestones, wouldn't be so bad off, following the 10 Commandments in their hearts. I don't mean to enforce it as law but to practice it. "Don't lie, don't murder, don't cheat, don't steal, honor your parents and your God." It shouldn't be that offensive. And Jesus' teaching of love, mercy and self-sacrifice is beautiful. Athletes for example can see the benefits of sacrifice and abstaining from too many sweets for something greater. And when you see acts of mercy, like in the restoring faith in humanity videos, our heart just knows that it's good.

Two of the 9 Satanic Statements are:

• Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!
• Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek!

I think that if God can humble Himself, and pour himself out for an ungrateful and evil person as myself, I shouldn't make people work harder to deserve my respect and charity. I like this movie clip of Jesus helping the lady up after convincing her accusers not to stone her for adultery. He wrote something in the sand, maybe it was the 10 commandments that the accusers realized they had broken also, for which they deserved vengeance also. And the only one who had done nothing wrong and would have been justified to stone her, instead showed her love and mercy.

I think you have a FAR too pessimistic outlook on America.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/and-the-most-generous-country-in-the-world-is-2014-11-18 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/11/20/giving-index-charity-united-states-myanmar/70008604/ http://wallethub.com/edu/most-and-least-charitable-states/8555/