WOW! Just WOW! That says a lot. I'm using that for my tagline.
Thank you Good Bad Company,
I'm on a 48 hour work session... and writing my heart out to Free Republic is my moment of relaxation. These are the things I wanted to say in slow and steady increments to the people of the Democratic Underground. They are the ones who need to awaken from the slumber of lost conscience.
In many ways, more in life style than in politics, I was like them. I know what it is like to see the beauty of the whole universe become a hungry vein, a need for cash, an uncontrollable rage. The goodness of our civilization was born inside an underground cave, with a baby who was already an outlaw, hunted by the authorities. He gave us the way to live both according to the law and above, below and between the lines of the law.
I am no preacher, no religious fanatic. In a way I'm defending something also intoxicating. Wine. Wine in moderation. (politics, friendship, comaraderie, carnival fun, etc.).. and that means appreciating the vine, tending to it (God, Family, Country).
They guzzle and ignore the source and just like drug addicts, will be condemned to diminishing returns of satisfaction. Today asking people te become saints is too much, better to lead them to be better sinners.
We normally think that separation of church and state only means the state keeping its nose out of religion. But in truth, it's the state that is now imposing the values.
It is the state that is making the people immune to terrorism. And that is a religious, moral, good bad question at the very bottom of humanity.
Yes I demand the separation of Church and state. But I demand it the other way around.
In UK the queen is the head of the official church and despite that the UK has thrived as a democracy... But in the soviet and Nazi systems the state invaded the Church's sphere of values, in a few short years millions were slaughtered.
Taking the ten Commandments down from the courthouse, or the cross from the clasrooms of Italy is nothing... I would even concede it if the State were not so busy taking them away from our hearts and minds.
If I'm not making sense, it's too much espresso and not enough sleep!
Good night to you!