God Or The Gun: An Indirect Sequel To The Malcolm X Speech “The Ballot Or The Bullet”

We can choose force and the ways of doing things in a way that “makes things happen quick”, as in “get a gun, and force things to happen through political power” as Chairman Mao of China once put it. Or we can produce results through productive prayer with action behind it based on genuine faith in ourselves and our strength of results. Let me explain myself: Bullying fear and initiated force versus voluntary understanding based on reason, necessity and conscientiousness is what I am essentially writing about here. Indeed, what God, spirituality and prayer come down to for me is faith with works from us combined with the faith, not saying something like “Whatever, I will get a gun and force the issue criminally or politically.” After all, since God works with nature and is nature, he is more reasonable than man can ever be anyhow, while the genuine Devil works politically through cajoling, force, tricks, games and fear tactics, even death ultimately. So, when I say God or the gun, I could mean God or the Devil or God or being put into fear by the point of a gun.

Leadership through understanding, necessity and love always work better than leadership through initiated coercion, force, and death if one does not cooperate anyway.

I do believe in self-defense and not being a pushover, indeed. Fairness though above all else is the most important thing, and weighing decisions to take action is the best thing in existence when possible. But, when it is not possible, I believe in taking the best action quickly instead of fearing to act. In fact, as I was coming up with this article: I was thinking of these concepts deeply, for in my reality, God is productive nature and action, and the Devil is coercion, initiated force and the gun.

So, think about this, God and nature produce nature, plants, animals and living realities without force or guns. Dictators, Devils and criminals if you do not cooperate, shoot you in the head or punish you with prisons, fears of reprisal, lying about benefits, conning people and recall elections. Which gets better results in reality? God and nature or dictators, Devils and criminals? I have pondered those realities with these answers, and Chairman Mao and Ambassador Leo Emil Wanta even gave me some of the answers.

“All political power comes at the point of a gun.””Every election in recent history we have right on schedule a killer virus.? Is this just a coincidence? If the Deep State Cabal is successful in destroying the economy & creating panic & fear does this impact elections? You do not need a Ph.D. to understand this evil plan.”

These are not the total answers, but just a sampling of the political Devil-run reality that is this society ran by force, fears, elections guns and dirty tricks. So, I end with another small paraphrased quote:

“Oh, the plague only took one thousand, fear took the rest in the millions!”

Start thinking!

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker. I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.