The short answer solution:

The solution provided here is geared toward people who call themselves “Christians”; however, I believe that the principles of this solution are applicable to everyone. The short answer solution to fixing all of the issues that this site raises is in a word “Christ”: acting “Christ-like”.

You have heard that it has been said, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy.” But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for He makes the sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends the rain on the just and on the unjust (Matthew 5: 43-45). No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (Matthew 6:24). 

Therefore, if the individual is following Christ’s principles he: won’t be a racist by trying to exclude those who don’t fit a preconceived “Christian” mold; won’t follow (or vote for) leaders that serve money and the corporatocracy; won’t protect the corruption of the corporatocracy; won’t believe in his country “right or wrong”; won’t support an eye-for-eye mentality; won’t feel above the law because he believes himself to be absolved of sin as he commits it; won’t support the status quo just because it’s easier that way; won’t support the destruction of the family by voting against workers and voting for big corporations; won’t support a government that uses US troops for racketeering; won’t put his faith in the words of men.

During medieval times the Catholic Church created absolute power by keeping the masses ignorant.  Only priest could hold and interpret the Bible to the masses. Thus the people had to believe, as the gospel truth, anything the priests told them. So if they said the Earth was flat, it was flat.  If someone dared to disagree they were sadistically tortured until they “saw the truth” or died.  Science has always been a stumbling block for organized religions because as Ben Franklin said, “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.” Organized religion requires blind faith in its leaders to keep the congregations “in-line”.  This is why the leaders of the Christian Right today hate evolution: it threatens their authority.  The leaders need their flocks or more importantly the flock’s money, therefore it is imperative to keep the flock believing that the leaders are wiser than scientist.  

Christ didn’t need anyone’s money so He didn’t teach religion.  He taught us how to get along with one another on a daily bases. Therefore, whether the Earth is flat, round or oblong; whether it was created in six days or through the process of evolution is irrelevant to Christ’s teachings. You either: believe in His message of salvation, serve Him rather than money and don’t hate anyone or, you believe in the men who form religions that cause us to hate each other over the tenants of their man-made religions. Religions are threatened by science, God is not. 

A longer answer solution:

Know your US history:  The US has evolved from a Republic to a global empire because money and making more of it is all that matters to Americans.  Any means to acquire more money is perfectly acceptable.  Morals have gone out the window in the “noble” quest for cash. Anyone who is not onboard with this quest is an unpatriotic liberal wacko. The Christian Right is onboard because they sure as hell do not want to be considered liberal.  John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (EHM) sums it up as follows:

We prefer to believe the myth that thousands of years of human social evolution has finally perfected the ideal economic system, rather than to face the fact we have merely bought into a false concept and accepted it as gospel. We have convinced ourselves that all economic growth benefits mankind, and that the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits. Finally we have persuaded one another that the corollary to this concept is valid and morally just: that people who excel at stoking the fires of economic growth should be exalted and rewarded, while those born at the fringes are available for exploitation. 

This concept and its corollary are used to justify all manner of piracy – licenses are granted to rape and pillage and murder innocent people in Iran, Panama, Columbia, Iraq, and elsewhere. EHMs, jackals, and armies flourish for as long as their activities can be shown to generate economic growth – and they almost always demonstrate such growth. Thanks to the biased “sciences” of forecasting, econometrics, and statistics, if you bomb a city and then rebuild it, the data shows a huge spike in economic growth.  

The real story is that we are living a lie. …we have created a veneer that hides the fatal cancers beneath the surface.  Those cancers are exposed by the X-rays of our statistics, which disclose the terrifying fact that history’s most powerful and wealthiest empire has outrageously high rates of suicide, drug abuse, divorce, child molestation, rape, and murder, and that like a malignant cancer, these afflictions spread their tentacles in an ever-widening radius every year.  In our hearts, each of us feels the pain.  We cry out for change.  Yet, we slam our fist to our mouths, stifling those cries, and so we go unheard.

It would be great if we could just blame it all on a conspiracy, but we cannot. The empire depends on the efficacy of big banks, corporations and governments – the corporatocracy – but it is not a conspiracy. This corporatocracy is ourselves – we make it happen – which, of course, is why most of us find it difficult to stand up and oppose it. We would rather glimpse conspirators lurking in the shadows, because most of us work for none of those banks, corporations, or governments, or in some way are dependent on them for the goods and services they produce and market. We cannot bring ourselves to bite the hand of the master who feeds us (Perkins 216-217). (more about EHMs)

References:
           
Perkins, John. Confessions of Economic Hit Man. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004.

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