nakedemperor

Recently there has seen a rash of religious posting. I have noticed that there are not a few who find this objectionable. Personally, I feel like they are inane and irrelevant, sometimes I play with them sometimes I just laugh at them. But it is interesting that we see people using religious beliefs to make arguments about politics. It appears there is a considerable number of people in this country who would like to see the US become a Theocracy. And I do wonder if to some extent the US is a Theocracy, I can’t recall any President being elected who didn’t believe in Jesus. Some more extreme in their beliefs than others but all claim to be xtian.  

Can religion be kept out of politics? I’m not so sure. The vast majority of the world has a deity. Now if these people actually believe that their god is real then I suspect they feel it is incumbent on them to attempt to make their world and their respective governments in a fashion that is pleasing to their god.

   Being a dyed in the wool atheist, this trend is a little disturbing to me. I feel very much surrounded by people with beliefs that seem to me to be one step away from schizophrenia. I mean these people have invisible friends that they talk to and many feel their invisible friend answers them. They believe in disembodied spirits, the devil, miracles and Armageddon. These beliefs are irrational and no one can achieve national office with out claiming acceptance of the basic Christian tenants or at least not in my life time so far. I guess I would be less disturbed about what I consider wide spread irrationality if people had the good sense to keep it to themselves, but when people feel no shame about espousing ideas that are entirely irrational, it makes me wonder, just how far can this irrationality go, and then I look at the state of the world and US actions in the world and I get some idea how far it can go. 

 It’s about time for humanity to grow up and realize that religion is an evolutionary phenomenon and that god stories are culturally based stories and that none of the god stories are real but rather they are mans feeble attempt to deal with a mysterious universe, the complexity of consciousness and fear of mortality. Just the idea of god is so HUGE that for a human to attempt to explain god is amazingly arrogant and ignorant. But that’s a funny thing about ignorance it is usually accompanied by arrogance.