Reply #7: Insanity rules now [View All]

[ninkasi]

Our country is in the grip of religiously insane radicals. The beauty of the Constitution, as written, allows people to worship as they please. Christians may go to church, preach, pray, whatever. The problem is that they want to use their visions of right and wrong to be the law of the land, based on their interpretation of the Bible.

This is the reason that our Founding Fathers prohibited the establishment of a national religion.They believed, wisely, that religion is a personal thing, between a person and his Deity, or that he might not believe in a Deity. This is a matter of individual conscience, and the government may not step in to enforce or deny religious beliefs.

What we have now, though, is a bunch of Christian zealots who believe that their religion trumps the Constitution, and the law. They want to establish laws according to their interpretation of the Bible. This is prohibited in the Constitution, and I fail to see why it should continue to be such an issue.

The law is clear, but they keep chipping away at it, doggedly ignoring law, and other people's rights, and anything but their own narrow minded views of the world. I fear them far more than I fear the Islamic terrorists that Bush keeps trying to frighten us with.

I was born and raised in Texas. I have spent my life around these extremists. I have no doubt whatsoever that the pressure to conform to evangelical notions of religion has been intense, and that authorities have looked the other way. This is what happens when a sociopath with a streak of religious insanity becomes president.