So many mindless politicians seem to be jumping on the "You can't do that!" But what they really mean is that they don't approve of a number of ideas that most Americans seem to grasp far better than their elected representatives. Of course there will always be the brain dead who believe that their own particular brand of religion is what God intended which never fails to amaze me. If you follow that idea to its logical (illogical) conclusion, then you would have to conclude that monotheism doesn't exist, that we worship multiple gods with multiple visions. It isn't just a schism between different religions since even within American Christianity adherents point fingers at other Christians and make disparaging remarks about the other guy's god. My Texas Southern Baptist grandmother loathed my Roman Catholic mother, treated her as though she were a devil worshipper and there are other more dangerous ideas now.
Even if you don't think these various statements are not about religion, ultimately the words and the phrasing show that that's the derivation. From abortion to gay marriage, from interracial marriage to contraception, the Ted Cruz/Clarence Thomas factions may claim that the Constitution supports their particular views but at bottom those ideas show up in various religious guises throughout history. While it seems unlikely that Cruz and Thomas actually believe in the other's God with Thomas being RC and Cruz being some kind of Protestant (I know Cruz's wife is Seventh Day Adventist but I don't know if there is a name for what he is), they are happy to throw the Golden Rule away in order to rule. The sophistry of their arguments often makes pretzels look like straight lines.
I never thought we would lose the Civil War in 2022 but we have. Woe is me, woe is my country.
Have been watching Malcolm Nance on the various talk shows...I'm trying not to slip into resignation mode but so much depends upon the mid-terms.
ReplyDeleteAh, the history lessons of the 1960s, where we learned the north won the Civil War and, despite the assassination of President Lincoln, practiced reconciliation, believing the south had changed its heart and returned to the fold.
Apparently a foolish dream. Leave it to power hungry politicians, willing to pander to the slumbering snakes now rising up to devour us.