Imperatives - You have every right to be afraid, but no right to be silent.

In understanding the nature of Humanities existence and the societal templates which inform how the citizen is treated and how the citizen treats Other and why, a citizen needs to understand the following imperatives (absolutely necessary or required) underlying Humanities existence and necessarily the societies within which they live and die.

 Most are simple one liners: So is E=mc2 is it any less true, any less complex, any less simple when one finally understands and also understands at the same time it may not remain ‘true’ forever.

Imperatives:

".the unfortunate loss of precious lives, no matter how it happens, hurts each human.." Qais Hussain 2011

No society should have to accept terror and subjugation of women and children under any notion be it 'Freedom of Religion' or any other as a price for allowing another culture within. 

God has no enemies, never has, for what has a God to gain by creating enemies; it is man alone who creates enemies for mans own purpose not God. God is simply the usual non-existent ultimate authority from on high utilised to justify the despicable murder and subjugation of many and to obliterate the conscience of the perpetrators.

Which text is stronger one you can easily promote and defend with words or one you need to promote and defend with the projection of fear and terror? Which of the texts is more likely to have been derived from a just and merciful God?

If Humanity took time, to take time to reflect on the meaning, purpose and utilization of “Clear Thinking” prior to the creation of hardened bastions of prejudice and certainty, the future, which is all Nature, we and our children have, would be a much better place.

Foundation Text = Ethics = Ideas = Motivation = Actions For and Against Other.

Cognizant human beings are formed and deformed by Foundation text.

Change the "insulting, dangerous, and wrong" Foundation Text against Other or Change Nothing.


Humanity Needs 'Religions of Freedom'=No Terror + Non-Adherents  & Women free from violence & equal under law Secular and Religious and Reality, Not 'Freedom of Religion'=Terror + Non-Adherents & Women Subject + Beating + Throwing the first Stone
No culture has the right to demand a place in any society where their presence delivers 'Permanent Terror' and subjugation of women under the cover of 'Freedom of Religion' or for any other reason.

If you sing from the same hymn book you are in the same choir - therefore you are singularly and jointly responsible for the source content and outcome of the performance.  You are responsible for the self-conceptions, the misconceptions, the explicit, the non-explicit, the resulting terror and subjugation of Other. Change it.

"If you change the intellectual climate, you're going to change the political climate" John Geanakoplos Yale University

The degree to which Religions of Certainty hold or influence the secular is the degree to which reason is stifled and resources, material and intellectual, which would enable the advancement of societies security and a citizens relative independence are diverted to restrict and subvert the ability of any society to maximize the security and relative independence of its citizens.“Since the time of Justinian I both the Church and State had come to think of learning as a luxury at best, and at worst as impious or pagan” Waren Treadgold A History of the Byzantine State and Society; “Meanwhile, religion was organizing. Struggling to attract new members, fundamentalist churches found a rallying call in the increasing moral complexities of science. Using television, the voice of Protestantism grew evangelical, angry, anti-science and intensely political.” Decline and Fall Special Report Science in America, 29th October 2011

"The more open the organisation, private or public, the more it will value the process of decision analysis." Ronald A. Howard Stanford University

When Societies measure their achievements by the protection provided to Women and Children to enable their attainment of maximum relative independence, not only materially but more importantly intellectually, as opposed to the presence of uncontrolled Religions of Certainty imposing their "insulting, dangerous, and wrong" foundation text of Other as less and the subjugation of Woman to Man to ‘tilth’ when and how Man pleases, only then can any human society begin to claim to be truly Noble and Righteous.

Religious Dogma as Secular Dogma are both recipes for life, therefore neither logically may demand the right to be excluded from critical analysis as to the benefits or otherwise to a Society and the individual citizens capacity to maximize their relative independence such dogma informs and the real outcomes which flow from that dogmas "insulting, dangerous, and wrong" Foundation ethics as detailed in its texts regards Other – particularly women and children.

If seeking security and harmony One should not judge a person, a community, a Nation by the colour of their skin, the level of their intellect, their physical dexterity nor their table manners but One must certainly judge them by the character of ALL their "insulting, dangerous, and wrong" foundation text regards Other, particularly as it relates to the status of women relative to men. For only after complete examination by oneself (not taking anyone else’s subjective word for it) of the Foundation Text regards Other and Women and ignoring demonstrative pious claims utilizing select abridged versions of the Foundation text to hide the truth, will you be able to conclude such a person, such a community, or such a Nation will eventually cause you more harm than good and is really not worth having anything to do with.

There is no such thing as Freedom only the relative degree of Independence Nature and fellow Humanity allows at any point in time.

It is only in seeking to enable the maximum relative Independence of Other first that each citizen is able to maximize their own independence.

Until each human knows within their heart each daughter is my daughter, each son is my son, each mother is my mother, each father is my father we will let apathy and our Foundation text ‘Other Last – If At All’ be their last memory of us.

The relative independence a citizen enjoys regards the benefits of Nature and being insinuated within Human society is directly dependent on the degree citizens seek to enable Nature and fellow Humans to flourish.

“No citizen may be disturbed on account of their opinions, even religious ones, as long as the Foundation text informing such opinions or manifestation of such opinions does not promote nor achieve the interference of either the capacity of another citizen to determine their own opinions, even religious ones, without coercion or established Law and Order.”

“Foundation text containing notions of vilification of non-adherents to a Foundation text or unequal treatment of women vis-à-vis men will not be utilized by a citizens Elders nor be allowed by the State to inform the opinions of new citizens, nor be the basis of establishing Law and Order by the State.”

"The State neither recognizes, nor salaries, nor subsidizes, nor enables for differential treatment vis-à-vis other societal entities commercial or non-commercial activity, nor utilizes for any State function any religion."

"Provisioning for social and economic disadvantage of citizens to be based on need, not ethnicity, colour or origin."

"No citizen to be asked to, required to or to be coerced in anyway to change their religious or secular beliefs prior, upon or subsequent to forming an intimate personal, de facto or marital relationship"

If you do not pay taxes to build infrastructure and pay for competent teachers to create new citizens who can actually build a Nation rather than consume it what do you expect.

 The poor cannot carry the rich through the swamp on their shoulders without the toga getting wet. Either the rich pay taxes or drop into the swamp along with the poor - as other 'great empires'.

The degree to which harm is promoted in texts and/or used to facilitate its acceptance is a true measure of the degree to which the text diverges from not only humanities notions of natural justice but the notion of a God as being infinite in justice and goodness and the basis of all logic and rationality.

Faith provides Secular and Religious Certainty the Greater the Certainty the Greater the Danger to Humanity.

Secular resources utilized to placate and ameliorate Religions of Certainty negative impacts on Society will be utilized to entrench the very nature and power of the Religion of Certainty the secular is trying to eradicate and will inevitably lead to the destruction of the State. It is not possible to placate or ameliorate the destructive aspects of a Religion of Certainty either have it conform, by force if necessary to existing secular tenets, or attempts to Secular state will be destroyed.

Tensions rise in Israel between ultra-orthodox Jews and mainstream Israelis By Kevin Flower, CNN January 3, 2012

"...prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak out against the segregation of women, referring to it as "an unacceptable phenomenon that goes against the values of Judaism and democracy."

Yehuda Bauer: Israel's genocidal nationalists As tensions grow between ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Israeli state, the scholar discusses Jewish identity and extremism. Talk to Al Jazeera Last Modified: 08 Jan 2012

Where Religious Textual Constructs = Secular Textual Constructs the outcomes which the Foundation text informs will be the same.

One raisin does not make a raisin cake. One or two statements for Other in a sea of vitriol against Other is no misrepresentation of the fact Other being qualified anywhere in foundation text will inevitably result in Other being viewed and treated as less. No matter how much a dogmas Foundation text contains text advancing the acceptance of Other if it contains any "insulting, dangerous, and wrong" text vilifying Other – Otherphobia it is akin to having a cocked and loaded gun on the kitchen table – as history and current events show it will be used - because despite demonstrative pious claims to the contrary the advancement of Other is qualified.

You adhere to a Foundation Text you are responsible for all its outcomes – there is no difference between a Moderate/Liberal and a Terrorist derived from the same text. Without one the other would not exist.

The greater the relative independence of women within any societal construct the greater the reduction of violence projected internally and externally required to maintain the societal structure. - Decline in violence - " ..Feminisation is another reason for the decline. As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons." Steven Pinker professor of psychology Harvard University 2011.

There is a proportional inverse relationship between violence and fear generated externally and internally with the believability of a Foundation text utilized as a Societal template to create it and subsequently maintain it.

Violence and suppression utilized as a tool in the alteration or promotion of an alternative Societal Foundation text will be reflected in the resultant Societal Foundation Text.

Blasphemy the refuge of violence over reason.

Violence replaces reason where reason never existed nor can exist.

Changes to Foundation text leads to Change in outcomes otherwise Nothing Changes.

"Judge candidates by their faith" Faith which reflects Foundation Text=Ethics=Ideas=Motivation=Action For and Against Other is the core factor by which a persons possible future actions can be judged.

Seek and thou may not find.

It is better to have lived a poor life well than to have lived it poorly. (My son Roberts advice to me)

Some of something is better than some of nothing.

You cannot change the past but you can change the future.

Humans see what Humans want to see.

The Mightiest Swords own the Pens - by which the resultant Foundation Text for the so called 'New' Societies will be writ and 'true' history passes for generations to come to remember the hero as villain and the villain as hero.

Humans are born of this earth to return to it knowing no more or less of what they are or will be either at the beginning or end.

Humans claim to be unique, with an understanding of life to match, yet are the sum of all they have heard, seen and felt – are but a variance of an inherited image.

It is by chance Humans believe what Humans do not understand.

Doubt is a Human torment and a Humans salvation.

Where there is No Doubt there is No Room for Conscience or God.

A cognizant Human is necessarily a hypocrite.

Fear the instigator of all things Human.

Apathy evils bedfellow.

Courage, Hope born of action in the face of Fear.

Until Humanity no longer requires Faith there can only ever be Opinion with degrees of Truth based on Assumption.

The only thing Predestined is the Pedestrian.

Man-God/God was created in an attempt to make permanent where no permanence can exist.

Man-Gods/Gods only utilitarian value is the power it gives Man to control women. Take away Mans control the Religion will collapse. As will any Secular structure in imitation.

The greater the equitable relationship in power one would expect less demonstrative acts of subservience are required to simply preserve ones security.

Societies to survive need to develop dependable lookouts as well as captains capable of changing course before its too late. "Political disorders can be quickly healed if they are seen well in advance (and only a prudent ruler has such foresight); when, for the lack of diagnosis, they are allowed to grow in such a way that everyone can recognize them, remedies are too late." Niccolo Machiavelli THE PRINCE 1513

True courage comes not from a leap into a Faith of Certainty but an acknowledgement Certainty is the Domain of God(s) not Man.

Fallible Man made these Foundation Texts Enlightened Man has therefore the responsibility and power to change them for the benefit of all Humanity.

The Heretic Humanities Conscience.

The respect due to you is determined by what is in your head not on it

The number of intermarriages combined with the number of citizens who maintained their previously held Beliefs within the marriage, in any society is a direct measure of the 'health' of that society and would reflect the level of womens relative independence to men and even the relative level of terror against Other present.

Where a decision making process is situated determines the outcome.
Add your own or delete them as you think fit: No one has all the answers nor can be right about everything - clearly by the tragic outcomes neither does Man-God for if He did would there not now be Peace amongst us?

Humanity has learnt so much yet we continue to live as if we have learnt so very little. How our ancestors must look down upon us and weep for the shame of it.

See: The Simple Answer to Ending the Terror - Plato Knew it years Ago Why have we not Understood.