Separation of Church & State
But really.. the most controversial union would that of the Holy church and government.. I say this because it’d be absurd to not acknowledge the very close relationship the two have with one another, “separation of church and state” or not.
Every major war, massacre, genocide, was based completely around which God said what. That being said, war is a tool of governments and states trying to impose power or defend against other powers. To summarize, there is a union between the institutions of war, government, state, and religion.
We look to the Middle East as an example of religious radicalism… we believe that Islam is a religion that advocates the death of many - one that looks to alienate all other races and religions.. but far before our Middle Eastern conflicts one religion played the very same role - Christianity. Let us not forget the Crusades in which Christianity waged war in an effort to purify Muslisms, Orthodox Russians & Greeks, Mongols, Cathars, Hussites, and various others including Jews.
Wait… purifying Judaism? Sounds like a bunch of Nazis to me.. and yet today they play a heavy influence - and I hate to say it, especially taking an Independent stance - in the Republican party. Sure, many sour Republicans love the opportunity to turn their noses up at Democrat victors and say, “the majority of voters who put Obama in office were blacks who wanted to see a black president in office.”
That statement is true, anyone who disagrees is sadly mistaken. A great number of blacks - who tend not to cast a ballot unless a candidate is politically relevant to them - did come out to see Obama make it into office. To witness history. In fact, not nearly as many minorities came out to promote Obama since the Clinton administration.. Was Clinton black?? Did we all forget to adjust the colors on our televisions?
Why is that relevant to anything? Because minorities, many would say, don’t realize the importance of voting in the most democratic process of all but they choose not to vote unless they feel there’s a reason to. Why is that wrong? I see it as tasteful discretion. Why vote for the sake of voting? But okay, let’s still count it as a wrong because it could very well be perceived that way as well… now, didn’t the majority of American voters who put Bush in office not know a thing about him? Didn’t they, in fact, come out and say in masses “we support him because of his religious faith.”?
George Bush colored the Middle East red with slanderous comments pointing to their inclination to wage war on a religious basis but I honestly feel his starting a fight was not only for personal gain but also for religious purposes in itself. Quite frankly, no blindly supporting Christian voter was saying “no” when he occupied the pagan nations of Iraq and Afghanistan. After a 4 year term of mistakes, still.. “we support him because of his RELIGIOUS FAITH.” But okay, we’ll say Iraq is a war mongering nation primarily based on the text of a made up religion.
Curious though, don’t we support Israel in the current Israeli/Palestinian war? The same Israel which is comprised of Jews who claim to own the land which has been occupied by Palestinians for centuries? And why is that? Because their holy book SAYS the land belongs to them.. so with that being said, we’d be hypocrites if we didn’t lend support and ammunition to them since we’re so dependent on text as well.
You know what else is interesting? The relationship between the constitution and the bible - not so much in regards to content but to its broad interpretation. Years ago black people were enslaved because our constitution said that’s the way it had to be… now we all live “united” under that constitution. Slavery was okay because the Holy Bible itself advocates slavery and yet the majority of muslim blacks are now faithful Christians. Even gays were prosecuted and still are because of the Holy Bible - an entire people looked down… beaten and killed.. and at their funerals, protestors say, “GOD HATES FAGGOTS.”
Shah Mohammed Pahlavi of Iran many years ago tried to ban religion and promote focus going towards education. The secret police claimed that he was a totalitarian ruler in every sense of the word, after his overthrowing in the Iranian Revolution. Of course, Pahlavi is not a man I would want governing me, but he didn’t try to get rid of religion and promote education because he was a crazy bastard (though he was), but because that’s the most progressive thing to do to prosper your nation and government. Intelligence should overthrow the learnings of the church - not violently. We should just look towards the conflicts in front of us with a blind, non biased view of things - incorporating religion into executive decisions automatically brings bias into the equation.
If there is a God. And this is him. Why do we support him? Why do we blame our actions on him? Have any of us met him? Has he spoken to us? Answered our prayers? When these genocides take place, where is he to say “this is not my way”? Where is he to part the red seas of blood spilled by those fighting so hard to speak the words he himself has yet to speak?
If people want to believe in a God, I say okay. There’s nothing wrong with believing that there’s more than the world we currently live in - I know I pray there’s more than this. There’s never anything wrong with having a support system; somewhere to go. But what clearly plays no role whatsoever in politics, should stay out of politics. There’d be far less bloodshed without murders concluded by “God told me to do it.”
