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Here is, among so many others, the problem with faith and their followers. Allow me to juxtapose two statements from the comment section from this article, House Passes, Considers Evangelical Resolutions:"God save us from some of your fans" and, "The truth is that God does not care how we conduct our lives...we have free choice and those choices have led us to the present day."
Does anyone else see the disconnect, the detachment from reality, and the illusionary, yet false hope that "God" will save us, but we somehow have only "free choices?"
On one hand, if you are placing all of your "optimism" in "God" by simply praying for action, then accordingly, by having free choice, you will be waiting a long time; conceivably forever.
On the other hand, if we have only free choice, then is it not singularly us – human beings – and not "God's" responsibility to clean up the abysmal disarray of our planet and our lives we have created.
If the latter is true, then is it not logical to take full accountability for the heinous actions and the utterly dystopian world we have created – on our own – and correct it without God or the influence of religion? History clearly shows that religion has stood in the way of reason, science, peace, and progress and has been the impetus behind more wars than any other cause or influence.
If we are truly free and have absolute choice, then we should be free of having to choose to listen to inane ideas that "your soul will burn in hell if you do not believe the way I believe" or, "we must return the nation to its Christian roots to solve all of our ills."
If I am free to choose, then I opt to exclude, exempt, and nullify religion – any religion – from the discourse of how to resolve the calamity we now face as a nation and a race.
Chiefly, that too many people are "praying" and "hoping" for a miracle, when the only miracle will be if people actually DO SOMETHING to alter the seemingly inexorable march towards a fascist, imperial nation buffered by, and dictated under, a doctrinaire manifesto based on pious propaganda that is as nefarious as it is mendacious.
Truth is, "God" will not save you, the world, or us. It is up to mankind to save his own hide and it starts with action grounded in realism and a plan. It is not a prayer to an ostensibly inerrant, yet invisible and absent deity that chooses to award us "freedom to choose" while true-believers claim the power of prayer is all that is necessary to resolve the world's tribulations.
Frank J. Ranelli, Associate Editor
