I know this is a touchy subject, but anyone who knows how I feel will have no problem with it. Please think about the answers to my questions. Don't assume I'm pushing your buttons for any other reason but my personal quest for answers. I really love to push buttons, so I'll start without any further ado.

I don't agree with atheism. I understand it, but I don't agree with it. Where did you obtain your morality from? Did your parents teach it to you? Did you learn it from another source? Do you think you just "know" what's right and what's wrong? What is your "moral compass" based on? Did you choose to be an atheist?

I don't agree with religion. Again, I understand it, but I don't agree with it. Religious leaders claim the Holy Bible is the Word of God. Which bible? Which books in the bible? Certain religions include some books but not the others while certain religions include all of them. What determines which books are divine? Do you choose to believe the bible, or is it something you were taught? Do you believe in God and Jesus, or just God?

I think atheists are correct in questioning the validity of the bible. I've heard too many religious leaders say that there are no errors or contradictions in it, only in the interpretation of the scriptures. I submit that the scriptures that don't quote God or Jesus can be considered anything that anyone wants to think of them. Other than the two beings I mentioned, there are and never were any "divine" people and regular people are capable of making mistakes and embellishing things they don't understand.

I agree with atheists that say there is no hell. Correct me if I'm wrong (and I know you will), but I only see hell as an invention of religious people AFTER the life and death of Jesus. Could it be that religious leaders were spreading their own FUD at the time the scriptures were written? I ask these questions specifically because the God I know would never create something that is opposite to what He is and where He lives.

Call me naive. Call me blasphemer. I do not care. Right or wrong, I think religion needs atheism to keep it in check. God wants to gather his sheep, not his sheeple. (Sheeple is a term meaning people who will follow anything without questioning it.)

If you're an American, you should be pretty annoyed by that headline. If you're not, perhaps you agree with it. Either way, I just convinced you to read this article. Americans, in general, are not stupid. Some individuals are, but it's only because they're SHEEPLE. I'll explain that at the end.

I just finished browsing other blogs where I'd left comments in the past few days. I came across one where I think another commentator didn't realize I was an American. I live in the Philippines but I am still an American. Even if I decide to obtain citizenship in the Philippines in a few years, I will still be an American. I will just have a dual-citizenship status with both countries.

The truth is, I will never intentionally mislead or try to disguise the fact that I'm an American. I love America. I may not like some of our leaders there, but I love the country. My priorities in life are in this order: God, Family, and Country.

1) God. I am not a member of any religious belief system. I am not Jewish, Catholic, Christian, Mormon, Muslim, Protestant or anything else I've failed to mention. I am not atheist and I am not agnostic. I have faith in God and I have my own reasons for it that have nothing to do with what's written in any book. Some people believe that God exists whereas I know that he does (and that's part of what keeps me going).

2) Family. The world was designed around the concept of family, which includes sex and procreation between a husband and wife. I am not anti-homosexual or homophobic in any way (although I used to be) but I don't believe any of the garbage that homosexuals try to make me believe. An example is the so-called "homosexual gene". The same people who support that theory also support Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection. I submit that if Darwin's theory applied to humans, any so-called gene would have been weeded out long ago as not being beneficial to the continuance of the human race.

3) Country. I served my country for 20 years on active duty and I'm still serving my country. Even when I receive my final discharge in September of 2008 (after 10 years in the reserve), I will still be serving my country. It will just be indirectly. By the way, the full name of the country is the "United States of America". That is why we are called "Americans". It is the only country in either North America or South America with the word "America" in the title. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

One of my goals in life is to make people question what they do and why they do it. People who don't are nothing more than sheeple (people that act like sheep) who believe everything they're told by a religion, a government, or the mass media.

Sometimes I rub people the wrong way by what I write because frankly, the truth bothers people who don't want to believe it. I'm not saying that I'm perfect. Sometimes I am completely and utterly wrong — the human part of me is responsible.

If it seems that sometimes, by what I write, that I appear to be un-American, please refer to my three priorities above.