It's Scary:God Is Back

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It's Scary Now God Is Back

In The Corridors Of Power

By Jasper Gerard

The Sunday Times - UK

10-24-4

 

God is making a comeback even less expected than Leonard Cohen's.

I'm Your Man, growled Len, but for many their man is upstairs: 43%

of Americans are born-again Christians; fanaticism fans across the

Muslim world; a devout Catholic who fears gay rights is set to

become the European Union's justice commissioner.

 

Here, there is talk of Tony Blair converting to Catholicism, which

could render him even more madly messianic. Adding to the spiritual

lucky dip, Princess Michael of Kent says Prince William's future

other half could be Muslim. Faith is the latest designer label:

witness Madonna's "belief" in cranky, pseudo-Jewish Kabbalah.

 

So what, you might shrug. Sure, it is odd that after 2,000 years of

scientific advance more, not fewer, souls seek solace, but it is a

harmless comfort in an empty, materialist world, right? Nope.

 

An adviser to George Bush states America now "creates our own

realities"; in such spirit Bush told Pat Robertson, an evangelist,

that America's casualties in Iraq would be zero; from papal

infallibility to presidential fallibility, perhaps.

 

Robertson knew better: "The Lord told me the war was going to be a

disaster." With these important folk enjoying direct lines to God,

might they not call BT to ask if there is a fault on the line? But

there is scant criticism. John Kerry talks of the fun he had as an

altar boy, and no one dares even snigger. Well, as Andrew Sullivan

writes on page 19, he does need the Catholic vote.

 

The downer with converts such as Blair and Bush is they actually

believe. Now Blair "knows" he is right on Iraq after his prayer

session with Bush. And that is dangerous.

 

If Bush wins, he will pack the Supreme Court with religious judges.

Blair takes care that new bishops are "on message" (to him); how

long before he follows his faith schools initiative with further

religious intrusion? After all, he has already allowed

a "creationist" who rejects Darwin to sponsor schools.

 

It would be wrong to hinder him if he wants to be left-footed, (or

turban-headed). Freedom of worship should be for all. But still I

worry: if church and state are divorced, ironically faith will boom.

Privatise any dead institution (BT, the Church of England) and it

perks up.

 

Even Cohen, 70, has become a Zen monk, (part-time, for when he is

not busy making us glum). So who will deliver us from dogma?

 

Copyright 2004 Times Newspapers Ltd.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1325398,00.html

 

 

Comment by

Alton Raines

10-24-04

 

Sure, God in government is a scary thing, even to most thinking

Christians. But notice the author of this piece really has a

personal beef with people of faith... period! He suggests that

somehow 'science' and 'time' should have long since vanquished the

idiocy of faith (showing his own idiocy), when every day that passes

science has to take another bow to scripture and pay homage to the

mystical revelation of the ancients, and scrap yet another "theory"

on the junkheap of atheistic scientism. He writes, "After all, he

has already allowed a "creationist" who rejects Darwin to sponsor

schools." His ignorance is clearly manifest! He can't even imagine

such a thing, and yet the leading creationists are using the exact

same empirical means by which secular scientism arrives at its own

godless conclusions.

 

It's simply a matter of this writer being an mal-educated smart-ass

who is "wise in his own conceits," and will suffer the penalty of

such haughtiness. Yes, we have to weary of those in government whose

religion or faith might take us all for a ride we don't want to be

on, but you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, and that is

the overriding agenda of the secular humanist -- label all people of

faith as mentally unfit and soon we'll be rid of that nasty

ole' "god" who expects something more than base animal behavior out

of human beings. Dogma isn't the problem, and neither is Darwin.

It's bigotry, in all its forms. And this is just one of its forms.

And the humanists are no better than Nazi's when it comes to their

view of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindu's, etc. They would have

them all "quarantined" so that science, which brought us the

wonderous horrors of the atom bomb, can continue on its merry course

in reforming mankind in the image of a soulless, reprobate nearest-

neighbor of a slobbering, monkey.