Double Flee A

The real separation of church and state.

Hi, I'm Dale. We are human beings, and our obligations in this life are to one another. I don't have to prove you exist, because you do. And you can see, because I have typed these words that appear on your screen, that I exist as well. We exist, and we know that because we do. That much makes sense. Now let me tell you about something that doesn't.

The guy running the country is nuts. Go ahead and read this village voice story:
Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move

From that story:
"[The guys George W. Bush met with] fear an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza might enable [a Palestinian state], and they object on the grounds that all of Old Testament Israel belongs to the Jews. Until Israel is intact and Solomon's temple rebuilt, they believe, Christ won't come back to earth."
"The problem is not that George W. Bush is discussing policy with people who press right-wing solutions to achieve peace in the Middle East, or with devout Christians. It is that he is discussing policy with Christians who might not care about peace at all—at least until the rapture."

So people who consider themselves favored by a deity are effectively making foreign policy. Can you possibly fathom how absurd that is?

There's a joke that it's not nice to be smarter than other people, which is funny because it's true. But to be so stupid that god seems like something that should be accounted for in making a decision that affects people's lives as in they live or die, that's where I draw the line.

Fuck being nice. Fuck being tolerant of the ones who make the world ugly with righteous zeal. It's philosophical nonsense to say what's true for you isn't true for me, and that's how I'm expected to handle the two-faced saccharine piety that is the belief system of the majority of the American populace. I will not suffer the weak-minded any more of this.

More, older insanity. Vice-president Cheney's christmas card.

These people are obsessed with the idea that god is on our side! That is insane. This is not funny and it's not healthy and there is no excuse for it, whatsoever. It simply must be stopped. Period.

Never mind that in contemporary America, not to believe in an imaginary being somewhere delegitimates you as "moral", or a "citizen"; that's just bullshit and in time the people saying it will be like the girls in school who stood firm in their belief that New Kids on the Block were the greatest. I take their dwarfish intellects about as seriously as ten year old girls'. They're stupid and I'm tired of them ruining my country. I don't need my brain massaged, I don't need the euphoric feelings that come along with the religious experience, and they who pretend to practice a religion that stresses resisting passage of judgement are judging me as morally inferior? They who need once a week to be sheperded are passing judgement on me for questioning what's good for people?

Reality, governed by physical law, is that there is no reason to assume there is a god. Tryng to prove there is one is a persistent metaphysical problem, so god-lovers everywhere have taken up the tactics of rhetoric. Despite what they say, being willing to make moral decisions in spite of that there is no such thing as god to make it easy and guilt-free is really not so tough, though it does entail a more rigorous degree of culpability, which logically has to be a good thing for the processes of civic decision-making, etc.

There is no other mandate for government than helping people. Because I acknowledge that and can make decisions based on secularity, I should be able to participate in a democracy and those who put god before any person of the six or seven billion in the entire world, should not. That's how we separate church and state.


Only secular humanists should be allowed to vote in a democracy. To an extent, we've trusted our way into a theocracy right now, and that's the saddest thing I can think of tonight.

posted by dale @ 11:52 PM