God's country

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 5 07:21:51 PDT 2000



>Why the hostility to religion? For all the zeolots blathering about the
>damnation of homosexuality, there are many others who remember "turn the
>other cheek" or "blessed are the poor" in their thoughts and actions.

Deadly dangerous stuff, religion, especially when it intrudes into politics.

Interfaith conflicts are stuffed full of the worst kind of zero-sum games -- e.g., the abortion issue -- where one side's success is a mortal affront to the doctrines of another. What increases the peril of interfaith conflict today is (1) the increasing contact between religions, due to more-mobile global populations and advances in communications and (2) the continuing rise of fundamentalism in all the world's major faiths. If present trends continue, I anticipate a world of religious conflicts that will make today's strife in, e.g., Northern Ireland and the Mideast look like schoolyard brawls.


>An American left need not be dominated by religion, but if it is stocked
>with anti-religious breast-beating, it is guaranteed to fail in a country
>where expressed religious belief and church-going is among the highest of
>any country.

By the same logic, I suppose any advocacy of socialism is doomed in a country that is the most capitalist in creation. But I have a very friendly, longstanding relationship with the notion of futility.

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