Indian Harbor Beach
Florida
As printed in Florida Today
With all of the hype and banter surrounding the GOP debates during the past few weeks, I finally found a subject coming to the forefront that is most amusing but offensive.
That subject is organized religion.Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, in a speech Thursday at the Faith and Freedom Coalition rally in Orlando, charged the liberal media with “ridiculing Christians” and sensationalizing stories about removing God from the pledge of allegiance and putting prayer back in school. How unrealistic and obscure can one be?
What I find most ridiculous about her remarks is their lack of realism. The reality is organized religion is like a skin cancer that appears benign but metastasizes into a melanoma that kills.
While she is not the first politician to use her elected office as a platform for nonsense, the simpletons who follow the rhetoric have become belligerent and nonsensical. She says, “These are very sad times when we allow the minority to poison the minds of the majority.”
What has the moralistic majority done for the miniscule minority? During the past dozen years of power, the GOP has ruined what Florida once was and allowed us to become the black-sheep state in America.
The Jeb Bush years are prime example of how organized religion can ruin a country, let
alone a state.
2 comments:
Organized religion is not everyone's cup of tea, but rather than attack any one of them, I would rather just declare that NONE of them have any business in politics. If their members don't agree, then they can move to Iran or join the Taliban.
"Coercing religious uniformity would lead to more social disorder than allowing diversity."
You know who said that? John Locke, the man who can probably be given the most credit for the resulting Bill of Rights that we have in our Constitution. That same Bill of Rights that conservatives wrap themselves in, declaring Christian influences.
Organized religion is not the problem. The problem is when people believe theirs is the "true religion".
Locke also said: "Earthly judges, the state in particular, and human beings generally, cannot dependably evaluate the truth-claims of competing religious standpoints."
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