Posted on 02/15/2012 9:07:24 AM PST by Paladins Prayer
While Im sure Barack Obama loves to stick it to traditional religious institutions any way he can, he certainly doesnt want to stick it to himself in the process. This is why Im fairly sure he and his advisors didnt anticipate that his contraception mandate would result in a knock-down, drag-out fight with the most powerful religious institution in the world. I think they miscalculated, and the reason why brings me to a link between the contraception issue and Islam.
What is it? Simply this: The modern, secular-environment-weaned man is largely incapable of grasping the devoutly religious mindset.
This is especially true of the atheistic, as the relativistic man is incapable of grasping an absolutist mindset.
To the relativistic liberal, and please forgive the redundancy, situational values reign supreme; that is, until theyre deposed by the next weeks values. Everything is negotiable, and there is nothing worth dying for because theres nothing larger than themselves, nothing more enduring than this life, nothing transcending taste. And a mentality that truly believes otherwise seems fantastical to them.
Oh, liberals of course know that religious people exist. They know that there are individuals who go to church, follow some antiquated rituals and vote in ways they dont like. What they have trouble wrapping their emotion-driven minds around is that some of these people really do believe. I mean really believe.
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I'm not so sure this was an accident. He has turned an election on the economy, where he is a catastrophic failure, into one on the culture wars. He has a far better chance of getting his base to the polls if this is about putting Christians in their place than if this is about what a great economic central planner Obama might become.
I was wondering what would happen if all the Muslims refused to pay taxes because some of the money went toward research about pigs. Sounds exactly the same as the Catholic complaint to me.
Not the same at all. Taxes are put into a general fund. There are things that Catholics (Methodists, Muslims, Jews) don't like, and can complain about, but since it is in a general fund, you can't say whether or not your specific funds go to any specific place.
In this case, the church (mosque, synagogue) are being required to pay the insurance company directly to provide a service which is seen as sinful.
It would be like requiring Jews or Muslims to provide money directly to the pig farmer, who will now send bacon to all of their employees.
Except that it is even more egregious, since I'm unaware of Jews of Muslims having an issue with non-members eating pork.
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