Reply #21: the power of faith

[alrightjim]

Hi zola. If you are a person embracing an arbitrary belief system, and that belief system explicitly asserts it is the one true way of faith, how do you think true believers are going to conduct themselves in the secular society they live in?

This is compounded by a corruption of the original arbitrary belief system, which was a religion of love. Farmers hobble their horses to keep them from running off. The love obligation hobbles power worshipping Christians in this country, because it is the power of God and faith that they honor, not the love obligation. When they do speak of love it is the love of the Lord which is generally stressed, then it is the love of fellow Christians, and then fellow Americans, but only Americans they approve of, and it is almost NEVER the love of enemies, even though this is pointed out time and again by Christ in the Greek scriptures. You don't blow up an abortion doctor, you love him. How exasperatingly inconvenient that would be.

Sanctimonious Busybodyism requires a muscular Christianity. This turn the other cheek Christianity MUST be gotten around. There is always some way to justify secular perpetration in the name of faith. More than any other group, the neocons have plugged into the power of faith and rode that putrid beast to the White House.

But don't be fooled by the GOP religious right. They are a means to an end, and they are being manipulated by the Bush folks, the rich and powerful coterie of white males who have owned and controlled this country since its inception. Bush is no country boy, no born again, no neocon. He is a front man for the greatest of American traditions---entrenched power---an insidous oligarchy expressing itself through corporate hijacked government.

Blaming him is like blaming the hammer for missing the nail. Blame the power behind the hammer. They are not a myth, they are not a conspiracy theory. They are not hard to find if you really care to look. I mean, where can a few thousand anal white male billionaires really hide?

Jimmy