Topic: Religion
Barack Obama, John McCain And The Pastorization Of Presidential Politics-- Reaping What We Sowby Scott from Oregon
(Libertarian)
Friday, April 25, 2008
Since everyone in the media is already pounding this issue, I am not going to mention names and point fingers to bring down anyone, but I am concerned about a disconcerting trend. It has become obvious we Americans are caught up in a grand, intellectual paradox, none better displayed than with all of the hullabaloo we see on the news about certain characters of certain churches saying certain things and supporting certain candidates and so on and so forth...
Here is the paradox-- Religion and "faith" is touted as one of the primary reasons a candidate deserves your vote, but affiliation with the "teachers" of religion is seen as mostly negative, inasmuch as those teachers tend to say things most rational people find ludicrous...
Go figure.
As an anti-religionist, I think religious teachers spout lunacies from all levels, not just political, and the reason I decry the religionist is because they are constantly trying to impose their religion on the political-- and look what happens.
Government should be rational and practical. It should not be a place where morality is imposed by governmental heavy-handedness, and it should not be a place where the supernatural is evoked in order to do the day to day necessities required of government.
"Faith" should not be a consideration WHATSOEVER when contemplating governmental competence. What does god have to do with anything the government should be concerning itself with?
I say the notion of god has no business there at all.
But what we are seeing with all of these Pastors getting into trouble with the electorate is the wrongheaded consequences of Americans thinking there should be an overlap between what goes on behind closed doors on Sunday, and the obligations of the federal government. The founding fathers knew well of this danger and advised against it, but LO and BEHOLD!! we as a nation seem predisposed to wallow in the religious muck for some unearthly reason.
Religion should stay out of science and it should stay out of politics.
Amen.
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