Let Religion into the Tent, Everyone Else Has to Leave


When Obama was running for his first term, he referred to his faith frequently. I thought to myself this was a mistake--much of the faith world will scoff and the rest doesn't care about your personal faith. Others in the Democratic Party grabbed onto Obama's approach. Keeping religion at arm's length was not a priority. 

Some argue today that if Obama, Inc. had secular back then we would not see the big prayer meeting that seems to be the Supreme Court today. While there is no way to relive past decades, we can note the founding fathers. They left a national religion out of the Constitution because, according to collected writing, they knew there is no way to hold it back once it's in the tent.

Once the religion of anti abortion is the law, will it stop? Already we know the intentions of some, to stop birth control and other ways to discipline women. It is a march backwards in time that I have mentioned from the book, We Don't Know Ourselves. For the years of WWII and the years before, the Catholic Church banned sale of condoms in Ireland. It simply told Irish politicians to pass laws prohibiting sale of them. Then into 1950's and 60's people got angry and told the church/politicians this had to change. And so it did. A law was passed allowing Condoms to be purchased with a doctor's prescription. Condoms have nothing to do with medicine. They have everything to do with religion. 

The same thing has happened with abortion. Anti-abortion operatives have been preaching the fertilized egg is a human being because it has its own DNA. The DNA part has nothing to do with defining when a human being starts his/her life. But religion has moved into the tent, and like the founding fathers predicted, pushed everyone else out.

Often someone comes up with the argument, "Christianity may ne onerous, but it is not as bad others (Islam)." My answer is our founding fathers understood religion. They knew is better than politicians today it is dangerous to let in in tent.

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