Posted by
The Masonomist on Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:00:24 AM
Lose the Christian pretense. You don't need to be a Christian or religious at all to be a good, ethical, responsible, kind, self-critical person. The Leftist jackasses use the God-talk against you left and right (pun intended).
The Left's own religions of Atheism (in the sense of the kind epitomized by Richard Dawkins), Environmentalism, and Socialism have all built many temples that need to be torn down. "Lucifer" is merely a metaphor of rebellion to them. If you took away their fuel for rebellion, you would put out that fire and their temples would crumble; but as it is, you fight the fire while you're feeding the flames. There are a few neo-pagans who are Demoncats, yes; but even they would come to understand the wisdom of conservatives if you would put away your own sin of flaunting your religion.
The Founding Fathers by and large were not Christians (though, yes, some were). They were Deists. They saw a spiritual nature at work in Nature, they saw (for lack of a better word) intelligence in Nature and the elementals of the human mind. But they would be appalled by this neo-Puritan God-talk and the sexual fear mongering that conservatives use just as childishly as the Left uses its myriad forms of fear mongering. The Founding Fathers were humanists (which the Left decidedly are NOT). They had serious issues with "original sin". The Puritans paved the way for this nation materially, but the Deists separated church from state and built this nation. And even those Founders who would call themselves Christians were much more philosophical than most conservatives seem to be today; they were still foremostly humanists.
There is truly no excuse for an educated person of the 21st century to be a literal Christian. However, in this great Republic of ours (fast crumbling as it is), that is each person's right to privately discover for oneself. It's also your right not to discover it, and to continue (in private) with really quite mentally bankrupt and/or underdeveloped beliefs such as Creationism or any other form of Christianity (or any other religion). Yes, you also do have the right to speak of it publicly. But rights don't make something right, necessarily (the Left prove this beyond the shadow of a doubt). What you do is unwise. Read your Proverbs more thoroughly.
The world is sick with the God-talk. Get rid of it.
You need to pull out the rug from under and pull out the plug on the Lefties. You fail to do this. But you wonder at their takeover.