Thu, 09 Jun 2005

The U.S. DemoTheocracy

Is the conservative Christian right driving the U.S. to a theocracy?

I sure hope not. Our country was founded on religious tollerance. The founding fathers took great care to keep religion out of the government and government out of religion. Yet more and more, I see religion--and more specifically Christianity--intertwined with government and politics. I am a Christian--specifically a Catholic--and practice my religion in my daily life. I believe that I should approach my life with the values of that religion. But, I stop short of imposing my views on everyone. The trend of involving a specific religion--and more specifically, a radical element of that religion as practiced by many of the religious right--with government bothers me greatly.

I believe that this also bothers much of the rest of the world, especially those parts of the world which do not practice Christianity. Tollerance and understanding are the keys to living with these parts of the world. And, I believe that we must live with these parts of the world. There is no choice to isolate the U.S. from the rest of the world or attempt to impose a religion on the rest of the world. Even the thought that we might be trying to do this could cause problems.

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