Christianity and the Constitution

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(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Republicans consider our Constitution the equivalent of the Bible when it suits their purpose. Christine O’Donnell, in trying to divert attention from her fundamentalism, exclaims that if elected she will make decisions and use her Senatorial judgment based only on the Constitution. Nonsense; Angle, Palin, Bachmann, Ron Paul and others are determined to lead us down their misguided religious paths.

When Jesus rode into Jerusalem it was on an untamed ass that was said to be the bearer of Divinity. Those who want to convince us today that what they believe is truly divine, are no better informed than the ass with Jesus aboard.

They may want us to believe their interpretation of the Constitution will not be based on their fundamental belief that the Bible is God’s word , but if they believe the authors of the Constitution were inspired by God [Jesus] and their words are etched in stone, what’s the difference if they conform to the Republican Party’s religious dictum.

The Constitution is a living instrument capable of interpretation as times change, but it is remarkable how well it reflects human nature which the founders realized needed to be controlled. Most of what it allows is limited by the proviso that since everyone is entitled to equal treatment under the law, no one has a right to disturb the rights of another. including Freedom of Speech as it concerns legitimate ceremony or, contrariwise, the imposition of religious thought or practices unless they can be shown to be appropriately sustained by scientific data, informed logic and human decency. It is insufficient to point to the Bible as irrefutable truth when by logic it can be shown to be other than what believers or politicians say it is.

The Book of Isaiah’s Prophesy was written sixty to 100 years before the Gospels, and differs remarkably from the tales in each of the Gospels beginning with Mark, not Matthew. Isaiah’s Prophecy introduces the philosophy of the Christian Coterie, by which Christianity was to emerge as the New Testament of the Bible following the Judaic first part, and also introduced the essential man, whose role in the scheme required he die as the “Christ” and be the symbol of Christianity‘s Church.

Isaiah says nothing of a “babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger no crib for his bed.” Instead Isaiah says of Jesus, he is “the one I have stirred up from the north [Bethlehem is north of Jerusalem]; my chosen, who will call on my name,” etc., and “who will arrive on the scene in about a year,” hardly time enough for a babe to grow to manhood, but enough time for Jesus to be indoctrinated by the Coterie.

The Church and preachers have ever since promulgated and preached what is not true, and have continuously maintain that “Jesus said” when in fact it is they who say what they would have us believe, and which likely they have come to believe themselves. Since Isaiah’s prophecy is the first source it must be the greatest truth; Hence, the Immaculate Conception must also be fantasy, and so on and so forth. Anyone who hasn’t read Isaiah with a critical mind, has no right to tell us what is right and what is wrong politically. Scientific fact and human logic are far superior to what believers insist we ought to believe because they prefer to believe what patently is untrue, but emotionally satisfying.

To insist that the Constitution is equivalent to the Bible is to make a lie of what the founders so logically did for us, beginning with the separation of Church and State, while allowing for Freedom of Religion so long as it does not interfere with the rights of others to believe as they wish provided religions do not exceed human sensibilities.

Making a show of burning books of the Koran is a small example; but the massacre at Jones Town in Guyana. or the burning of a member’s compound in Texas in which women and children burned to death to prove the strength of faulty faith is unforgivable; just as would be the election to Congress of persons who know less about Christianity than those they pretend to serve.

The last so-called witch was killed in Salem, MA early in the 18th Century after the schism between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism; and in the same century the founders chose to separate Religion from the State. Currently, however, the Republican Party of God and its Evangelical Holy See are attempting to emulate the power of the Roman Vatican. Karl Rove disapproves of the new wave of Tea Party candidates whose religious leanings are more extreme even than is the existing political Holy See, perhaps because he is afraid newcomers will upset the architecture of the Party he designed.

Where truth is concerned, the greatest threat to America is not from without, but from within, and the nations best hope is to keep Democrats in power at least till 2016 when Republicans may be less God-like in their purpose and more inclined to serve the people than to sustain a political party whose religious will is to control the rest of us.

Cesar Milan says it best when he says; “dogs are not led by emotion as people are,” and if people were as instinctively balanced as dogs that “are mindfully alert and emotionally in tune,” the world would be a better place for all, which applies to politics as well as so-called rouge nations which could become balanced if they were handled properly.

Raised in Minnesota and California during the dark years of the Great American Depression, Ken is well suited to talk about the powerful forces in the world that give all of us hope and tragedy and everything in between. You can write to Ken at:darken1@sbcglobal.net