Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Freedom of Religion?

Our founding Fathers framed the constitution to protect us from the use of the government’s power and resources to promote (and eventually enforce) the Religion that is popular with the people in power. The word here that is obviously most important to define is Religion. Here is a good, working definition:
Religion is the attempt to live and constrain one’s thoughts and actions to “Dogma” based upon a particular “World View”.
A “World View” is the set of beliefs about the Universe we perceive that defines those things that are not empirically proven by repeatable testing and/or observation.
“Dogma” is a larger set of theories and axioms built logically (discussed, accepted and published) upon the assumptions of the World View, and generally accepted as “facts” within the community that ascribes to a World View.
There are certain aspects of our universe that are as yet unknowable by empirical testing and observation. These include the origin of the universe, and the existence and nature of possible dimensions outside of the space-time universe. These subjects must be addressed by religion in order to begin to build a framework for rational behavior; the behavior that enables Humans to achieve goals distinct from all other animals.
Thus, though it may not be acknowledged as religion, every Human must have a Religion to operate rationally. Without a religion, a person will be clearly seen by society to behave in a animalistic or psychopathic manner, because there is no attempt by their mind to be logical. Intellectual people who claim to have no religion are just denying that their World View and Dogma might be imperfect.
Organized Religion is a structured community that gives increasing respect ( and usually power) to those in the community that best work to solidify (by thoughts and actions) the Dogma of the common Religion, and to promote the spread of the Religion, by successful application of its religious principles.
All Organized Religions hope to overcome the point made above, that certain aspects of our universe are inherently unknowable. To do this is to silence the inner fear that haunts all humans, that their World View might be destroyed, and thus invalidate their entire existence to that point, by invalidating the basis of the logic in their lives.
Today, In a Humanistic - New Age version of the Inquisition of the Dark Ages, several Organized Religions, working in concert for their mutual benefit, are advancing the World View of “Naturalism” to the point that the U.S. Government and the mass media have been aggressively attacking all opposing Religions with ridicule and propaganda, and, where possible, are essentially outlawing the World View and Dogma of opposing Religions.
Any Religion that refuses to rewrite their Dogma to adhere to the Naturalistic World View is castigated openly as “irrational” and thus essentially psychopathic and potentially dangerous to society.
The same spirit that possessed and enabled the Nazis to hate the Jews is now empowering Americans to hate “Fundamentalists” of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam because they refuse to bow to the new social order defined by Naturalism in which “Moral Relativism” and self pride and satisfaction of ones lusts are dogmatically held as important.

The fabric of American society that once promised great security for the “pursuit of happiness” is obviously in a state of rapid decay. It may be time for a second American Revolution, in that some of the main conditions that the first revolution sought to remedy are upon us.

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