Seriously, I don’t think about religion very much. I remember it, I don’t believe in it, I don’t think about it. Some of my friends and acquaintenances, who obviously have stronger feelings about religion than I do, forward e-mails to me. This Sunday morning (9:30AM her time) I got the e-mail referenced here about some miscreants deleting the words “so help us God” from the WW II Memorial on the National Mall. This brought questions to mind.
I’ve written elsewhere that before my mother passed away I would take her to and from church every Sunday. I told her in all sincerity that if her religious practice gave her peace then I was all for it. During my formative years I went to an American Baptist Church, made a “God is Love” tie hanger for my foster father in Vacation Bible School, the whole thing, but they never taught me the anger that the religious have today.
I don’t mean to single out Christianity here; the atheists can be every bit as militant as any of the theists. One doesn’t expect to see so many angry religious people. Where we are supposed to find peace instead we find this anger.
Religion is based on faith, not on facts. Seriously, I think theists are pretty much nuts – creating an entire universe for a handful of flawed life forms on a dinky planet in a minor solar system – but if it makes them happy then I’m happy for them. More importantly, it seems to me that if you believed that you were right then it shouldn’t matter to you what I believed so long as I kept my beliefs out of your life.
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Anyway, that’s my thing this Sunday morning: people who are supposed to be in church are sharing their anger with me because they erroneously believe their god was slighted on the WW II Memorial.
Incidentally, Franklin Roosevelt was an unrepentant adulterer when he was saying “so help us God” so what’s up with that anyway?
Coincidentally, today is the anniversary of the landing of first Quakers in America in 1656. Coming ashore in Massachusetts, they were immediately placed in custody until they could be deported on the next ship to Barbados, their belongings confiscated and their bibles burned. So much for religious freedom as the bedrock of America.
Well I’d say I think our country has gone nuts except from what I read, the rest of the world is as nutty. You and I kind of grew up in a time of more live and let live than was before, I think, or came after. We were spoiled by what seemed to be a tendency to let others live life as was best for them without trying to force everybody else into their system. What I want to know is where it went!
I see little harm in people believing in silly things if it gives them comfort. Unfortunately many don’t wish to leave it at that, they want to impose THEIR supposed sensibility on others. After all, theirs is the RIGHT way. The danger in religion is it pushing its agenda into public policy, establishing their moral code. It cracks me up whenever some Family Values politician or minister gets outed for philandering.