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The Lunacy of the Religious Right
In the course of history, humans have been a progressive species. From the time of the wheel to the computer age, we have adapted to changes in our lives, surroundings and evolution of intellectual growth. Forward thinking, acting, and progression are human traits, and ultimately what separates us from beast. These actions mostly benefit us, through research and education, but to a certain few it offends. It offends because it in itself is a paradigm of this forward thinking, but of a different, archaic age.
In this time an eternal constitution was set forth. One that was truly, and at the same time falsely divine. Its system of control was and still is fear. Fear that there is something worse than what is experienced on Earth can be found in the afterlife. With fear comes obedience, and with obedience comes a following of epic proportions.
This following of organized religion still exists to this day. As humans progress through the ages, forging new frontiers, there is a constant friction against our instinctive mission in life. This mindless scourge is no more present in the United States than it is in Afghanistan.
Religious extremism has the identity of a Muslim with the Koran firmly grasped in his hands while he blows himself and 30 others on a bus up. With this being a completely arrogant and false judgment from westerners, the action of refusing to realize that religious extremism has many faces is becoming a detriment to our progression as a nation. The growing religious movement in the United States is beginning to forge a new style of politics, one that is dangerous and very controversial.
The selfishness of religious right in this country is bound in determination to bring the notion of liberty and justice for all to a fiery reappraisal. Regression is the keyword of the religious right, regression to more than 2000 years ago but with modern messages of how theoretical powers to be can rule a nation. Has America lost all hope in everything else, to where we have to revert to talking to air for hope and inspiration?
Outcries for a more moderate movement should be listened to and heeded. The United States is slowly congregation by congregation is becoming a Theocratic stronghold. The solution to this problem is the Separation of Church and State, which is not included in the constitution, but should rightfully be included. It is a logical way of thinking, and keeps the immorality of making the masses suffer for a minority’s just cause.
With a more and more conservative America, comes a more and more oppressed and dim way of thinking. The ways of today mold the ways tomorrow’s generation will think. With that said, do we, as a society need to give our next generations the best science, technology, conservation and intellectual achievements? Out of that favor of that argument, it looks as if we will just hand them an old set of ancient, false laws and a bleak hope of a fortified tomorrow. The thoughts that we, as humans, animals, and carbon life forms are nothing but dust in the wind should be reversed to a new special meaning, one that means we matter, and are respected in the cycle of life.
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