Unfortunately, that is exactly what is happening in our country without most people actually knowing it. Religion is this: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith. If government was not allowed to implement religion into our society then how in the world does the education system dogmatically teach “naturalistic evolutionary theory”?

Naturalism is the belief that nothing exists outside of nature. That would include God and every other form of “traditional” spirituality. This theory is being taught to our children every day without most parents even knowing it. The current “science” community loves it because most of the people in powerful positions in the “science” world are naturalists and like proponents of any worldview, they want their ideology to spread. And guess what? It is being systematically spread to all of our children without our permission.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand evolutionary theory and I acknowledge that species do change over time. That is not the issue. The issue is that naturalism has become the sanctioned religion of our education system. Unfortunately, I don’t think most of our senators, representatives, and other government officials quite get the implications. All religion that is not naturalism (which includes every other religion) is being systematically weeded out of our country through the education system.

With regard to Christian’s desire to spread the message, of course Christians want to spread the message. If someone believes they have found the opportunity for eternal life, they will want to help others to find it to! The problem happens when idiots try and force people to believe in their religions. That is wrong because it goes against our freedom to chose. Anyone who tries to force someone to believe in their religion is a problem, but I welcome people sharing their thoughts with me. Just because we don’t agree doesn’t mean we should not share. I mean, isn’t that what this blog does?

Those who attempt to bring the God idea in whatever form to their aid to bolster the lie of violence against others whom God certainly created in any legendary role of God, make of God’s memory a hollow idol of hate and vengence and deny the possibility of a loving world of peace and hope and prosperity where all can love one another for a little while, help one another for a little while and enjoy each other’s company for a little while – which in any sane interpretation of God’s intent would be.

We see in the faces of our enemies a reflection of our own lost hopes and dreams which we set aside as children. The fears and uncertainties our enemies give to us merely activate the lasting fear and uncertainty instilled in us by abusive parents and guardians who used violence to enforce their own mad ideas on us before we were beaten into submission and became mad ourselves.

Carl Sagan told me once that he had hope of human progress because at the beginning of 19th century the idea of human slavery was widely accepted. The more productive naturally would organize the affairs of the less prodcutive and slavery was the natural result. A world without slavery would condemn a whole race of less productive people to poverty and ruin. At the end of the 19th century no civilized person would own a slave or defend slavery in any way. It was obvious to all by that time that slavery was abhorrent and abusive. This suggested there may be a time in human affairs when organized killing of humans would end. There was a time when people raised armies to kill other people and then there was a time when no civilized person would suffer the death of another – no matter what the reason. Such a world of increased awareness should be possible given the history of slavery.

This blog is testimony to the remoteness of Sagan’s hope.

1% = 3 Million?

So, you’re saying that the entire population of the US is suddenly Christian?

Fail.

See those two bolts, one on each of your temples? Loosen each one turn.

The free market’s “invisible hand” only becomes a religion-like absurdity when one endows that invisible hand with a brain. Morality & ethics, like the free (unregulated) market, are merely a framework for viewing physics—the physics of human interaction. And it’s not until one introduces the “quantum” aspects of god to morality, and omniscience to the free-market’s invisible hand, that one inevitably runs afoul of the undeniable for-every-action-there-is-an-equal-and-opposite-reaction physics of both morality and economics. The (seemingly unavoidable) stumbling block seems to be not the lack of religion/regulation, but the inevitable blowback from both of them…requiring more religion/regulation…which produces yet more and deadlier blowback…ad infinitum.

Michael, what a great article!

Thanks…

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