Two things you never talk about at the dinner table, politics and religion. I voiced an opinion and thankfully that opinion has spawned debate and not an overall bash of my opinion. But i will clarify my earlier statement, and a further article will be coming which expands on this thought.
I asked how the conservative folk can claim that the liberals are ruining the country, when it was conservative leadership that led into this depression (yes depression) and then pass it off as if it was ‘gods will.’ I have no problem with people being religious, but basing political decisions on what could be described as no more than an elaborate fairy tale is insulting to the progress of human intelligence. From that I continue…
Our country was founded upon the right for the people to make its decisions and not one person giving an overall command. The constitution, which is the law of the land, and how our country was founded, mentions no god what so ever. It even has explicit intentions to avoid religion, with the separation of church and state. E pluribus Unum, out of many, one. Which essentially are our people choosing a representative government was our unofficial national motto until the 1950’s. In fact ‘In god we trust’ didn’t appear on money until the civil war because of strong Christian demand during that period, and it was the decisions of the lawmakers to make it official in the mid 1950’s walking around the loop hole of religion and state saying that the government was recognizing religion not endorsing any religion in particular.
My argument is that it shouldn’t be in state; George Bush said that, "We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God.” Our rights derived from the men who wrote our constitution, not god. The idea of gay marriage, abortion, even giving freedom to all nations is a political decision based upon your personal ethics and what you believe is right. However to claim your decision is based upon what god wants takes away from one forming their own opinion based from rational thought and simply turns it into you being dictated to from a ‘higher power’, which of course is the basis of my argument.
I have no problem with religion, in fact I do believe in a higher power. I think this belief is a wonderful thing because it allows one to believe that there is something greater than man and man is at best flawed. I have no problem with that belief, but to base our policies and actions upon a belief is itself the flaw of man. We can’t even pin down what god is the real god, so how can we base our policy on something that in itself is so debated.
