The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Hmm. Let's think about that for a minute. When I first glanced at it, my brain did this little thing like when you're trying to take off on your bike but you're watching something else, like maybe a big dog running out from a house intent on biting your ass, so you're trying to find the pedal without looking down. My brain said, "Aren't they the same?"
Nuh-uh. Nope. Very different indeed.
Religion is what religion says.
Morality is what morality does.
Religion says Love God with all your heart … and love your neighbor. Morality protects the children, cherishes the old, feeds the poor. Religion says God is wise and just. Morality says I will not supplant God's wisdom and justice with my own, at the point of a hundred thousand guns.
You knew where this was going, right? We are a religious bunch, we Americans. We are not moral. Our streets are littered with the poor, our old are sick and in need. We could have cured diabetes by now, and cancer, muscular dystrophy, and a hundred other dread diseases, but for flooding the military-industrial machine with our wealth.
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We could have made the world a better place, but we are more afraid of terrorism than we are of death.
Right on! We're back to "fear" again. We are all of us afraid and the moreafraid we are the more inept we become. We do cover our fears rather well, don't you think?Once I had a vision of what we could build if we all worked together. Much like your vision of what the money could do if we were truly moral.I would like to believe that if we can imagine it,we can create it.
Are you running for President?