Christian Democrats in the United States
Conceptual Issues - Church and StatePublic government should enable good-spirited people to help each other become better people, regardless of our individual belief. Muddying the waters of law with religious preference quickly leads to a loss of the principles of common welfare that our American law is there to maintain. America was founded on the principles of religious freedom. That freedom defines her character as a nation. We do not sully her reputation by trying to enforce a narrow religious view on everyone. The United States should enable all people to find common ground together in spirit and actions, not in law or symbols.
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Friday, September 5, 2008
1:28 PM
They make you feel like God's going to send you to hell if you spill your tea or say a bad word or if you challenge their self-serving policies of power and greed. There is a reason why the word "Satan" means "Accuser." Their layers of deceit are laid so deeply, and intertwined with so many subtle techniques to titillate our sensory perceptions, to raise our adrenaline and make us feel powerful, that it is almost impossible to unwind their devious bullshit from what is actually good about God and religion.
As for the everyday man, woman or child thrown into the meaningless rituals used by the state to control your mind, it is very difficult and embarrassing to admit that one has been deceived. It is even more difficult to admit that you have deceived yourself, and pulled the wool over your own eyes.
Because of this shame, anyone who attempts to think rationally and to criticize these mindless attitudes of self-righteous impunity is cast out of the group, becomes a pariah, even family and love are sacrificed for the purpose of greed and power. Even if it's someone else's greed and someone else's power. It's a sad state of affairs.
And when someone entrenched in the meaningless ritual and parroting propaganda of mis-used religion wakes up and sees what a crock it all is, they are tempted to decide that God is not real because their religion is bogus. The Deceiver plays and wins both sides, moving us away from God.
Luckily, the reality of God does not depend in any way on our beliefs, thoughts, or actions. He does not depend on sermons or prayers or sacrificial offerings. He is there for you when you wish to seek him. No prophet, preacher, church, mason, think-tank or politician can claim to build the bridge to God. "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone" and "the domain of God is within you." All you have to do is reach out with love and ask God to show you the way.
"religious right" - who would Jesus bomb?
What strikes me as odd about the "religious right" and their insistence that there can be no "moral relativism," is, that when it comes to shooting or bombing a bunch of innocent people, in both deliberate and accidental circumstances, in a relentless and unmerciful pursuit of enemies, all that moral talk goes out the window, and it's "support our troops, rah rah rah." But this political fervor, the action of this mob, comes down to a thirst for blood, an exercise of the instinct for human sacrifice to appease demonic forces, whether the victims be innocent, or enemies, or our own.They make you feel like God's going to send you to hell if you spill your tea or say a bad word or if you challenge their self-serving policies of power and greed. There is a reason why the word "Satan" means "Accuser." Their layers of deceit are laid so deeply, and intertwined with so many subtle techniques to titillate our sensory perceptions, to raise our adrenaline and make us feel powerful, that it is almost impossible to unwind their devious bullshit from what is actually good about God and religion.
As for the everyday man, woman or child thrown into the meaningless rituals used by the state to control your mind, it is very difficult and embarrassing to admit that one has been deceived. It is even more difficult to admit that you have deceived yourself, and pulled the wool over your own eyes.
Because of this shame, anyone who attempts to think rationally and to criticize these mindless attitudes of self-righteous impunity is cast out of the group, becomes a pariah, even family and love are sacrificed for the purpose of greed and power. Even if it's someone else's greed and someone else's power. It's a sad state of affairs.
And when someone entrenched in the meaningless ritual and parroting propaganda of mis-used religion wakes up and sees what a crock it all is, they are tempted to decide that God is not real because their religion is bogus. The Deceiver plays and wins both sides, moving us away from God.
Luckily, the reality of God does not depend in any way on our beliefs, thoughts, or actions. He does not depend on sermons or prayers or sacrificial offerings. He is there for you when you wish to seek him. No prophet, preacher, church, mason, think-tank or politician can claim to build the bridge to God. "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone" and "the domain of God is within you." All you have to do is reach out with love and ask God to show you the way.
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