Reply #67: Religion will kill this country

[Stuckinthebush]

We have an illegal war going on in Iraq that has turned into a deadly quagmire...

We have a hostile international community that now hates us...

We have a strengthening China just waiting for our collapse...

We have North Korea with probable nuclear weapons capabilities...

We have a declining dollar and increasing unemployment...

We have a increasingly uneducated population who will be unable to compete in the world markets...

We have an oil crisis that is not being addressed...

We have a record deficit that is constantly increasing...

We have a crisis of lack of adequate health care for many Americans...

We have a growing group of terrorists, whom we helped to create, setting their sights on the country...

We have twisted politicians in all branches of government doing their best to further enrich corporations and wealthy donors at the expense of the majority...

We have a constitution that is teetering on its last legs due to the erosion of civil liberties..

We have a powerful private citizen, who is in control of a large mindless mass of religionists, advocating the assassination of a democratically elected foreign leader...

We have a non-functioning congress...

We have an ill-functioning executive branch...

We have an increasingly sick judicial branch...

We have rampant poverty...

We have a massive real estate bubble that will burst soon....

We have two more months of a dangerous hurricane season staring us in the face...

We have the entirety of Latin America teaming up against us...

We have a coordinated attack on Social Security - the last hope for millions of Americans...

We have an increasingly non-effective and corrupt media...

We have presidential lackeys outing CIA agents...

We have a natural disaster of immense proportions down on the Gulf Coast...

We have our national forests and parks being dismantled and threatened by those who are supposed to protect them...

We have increasingly poor air and water quality...

We have a coordinated effort at dumbing down our schools further with a foolish push for the teaching of "intelligent" design...

All of this....ALL OF THIS....and the foolish Americans care whether or not a party seems friendly to religion. RELIGION! Have we become a people who have lost their sense of priorities, who have lost any clue as to what is more important in this failing country? Do people really give more of a damn about which slick, twisted politician will pander to their god than they do about the list of problems above? If so, then perhaps we do need to slowly fade into history.

We had so much hope for the 21st century, didn't we? Who would have thought that we would be driving backward down the road toward un-enlightenment and superstition? Who would have thought that we would have let a bunch of theologically infantile fools take over our government and destroy us from the inside out? What a waste.

Religion.