Religious Dogma Poisoning Political System

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Perhaps our pledge should read, “One nation, divided, with diminishing liberties for all.” I am, of course, referring to the growing infestation of religious doctrine into our political system. It stands to reason that when narrow-minded, ignorant, archaic draconian dogma and doctrine are infused into government; it only furthers our devolution and promotes a Christian revisionist history that actually weakens our Nation.

We’ve got politicians running for office because they believe God told them to, and their stump speeches sound more and more like sermons every day. Throw in a couple of snakes and a tambourine-wielding believer or two and you’ve got a genuine revival on your hands.

It’s disheartening, really. Pathetic, even, that a vast majority of United States citizens are blinded to how advanced we could be in the sciences, medicine, economic growth and foreign policy if religion were completely eradicated from government in all forms.

The stranglehold that religion has in our government continues to hold us back from curing a plethora of major diseases because the godbotherers in our legislative branch are under the utterly ridiculous notion that stem cells are on par with living, breathing, sentient human beings.

Our country is going broke fighting “just wars.” Our children are dumbed-down by stubborn uber-religious teachers and administrators in our public schools who insist on “teaching the controversy” (read: lying to our kids), and by the ease at which parents can home-school their kids without any accountability with regard to curriculum, testing or attendance.

I won’t even go into the glaringly unconstitutionality of “Faith Based Initiatives” and school voucher programs, or the fact that there are still many states where corporal punishment is still being practiced, all the way through high-school.

Conservatives, Liberals and everyone in between hotly debate the job of government. In fact, my personal political views vary from one end of this spectrum to another, depending on the topic and data at hand. But one thing is for sure. Religion gets in the way of governing. It divides, stymies, cause dissent, wastes time, money and resources.

The United States Government has no business invoking any god, gods, goddesses or anything else even remotely connected to religious belief. Our government is not in place to placate anyone’s religious beliefs, period. There should be no references to the religious beliefs of our politicians. In fact, the religious beliefs of our politicians should be kept private.

There should be no reference to God in our Pledge, on our money, on or in our government buildings, as part of any State Constitution, in our public schools (except as lessons in mythology), in our national motto and especially at the start of legislative/municipal meetings.

There should be no references to Christian Apologetics (Creationism), the supplication to the Christian gods (Prayer), the theocratic regulation of human sexuality (those pesky gays again), what a woman does with her vagina and/or uterus (Abortion), or the use of naturally growing flora (Marijuana).

In fact, Congress shouldn’t make any laws respecting an establishment of religion. Wait, that’s already a law…

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Bill Formby
11 years ago

They will save your soul even if they have to kill you to do it. Nah, just kidding. They are just going to kill you.

merridee
11 years ago

I’ve been watching and talking with people about the steady encroachment by the religious right into government at the local, state and federal levels since the Reagan era. The typical reaction was “oh, they’ll never get that far, they’re not that powerful.” One of my siblings and I became estranged 25 years ago as she was an active fundamentalist. That estrangement ended two years when her pharmacist refused to fill her prescriptions that help treat her MS on the grounds of his Christian belief and her discovery that his refusal was entirely legal. Her husband just shrugged, telling her I’d warned her about stuff like that years ago and she’d kicked me to the curb for it.

As far as I’m concerned the intrusion of religion into politics and public policy has been nothing short of Treason committed against the nation. Divided? We haven’t been divided like this since the Civil War and before all is said and done, I predict that the blood bath will make the Civil War look like a barn yard brawl.

11 years ago

Other than one small typo, I think I’ll have this entire article tattooed on my forehead!

Reply to  bitcodavid
11 years ago

I’ll second that motion ! What don’t religious Americans understand about separation of church and state? Oh yeah, it’s called ‘selective idiocy’. Well let them select this. http://www.whypeoplelaughatcreationists.com

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