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Thomas Vorce reporting from Grass Valley, CA
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Two statements by Aristotle in regards to our rights that we need to remember these days:
“When equals are treated unequally that is injustice.”
Loaded yes? But wait, he also said,
“When unequals are treated equally that is injustice.”
I am reminded of this when I see fundamentalists put in positions of governance over more qualified players. I believe in the Christ but I am not a member of ‘Club Jesus,’ or Pat Robertson’s TV ministry. You would think that a graduate of Yale Divinity School would know about Aristotle’s wisdom but apparently he is too busy masquerading his intentions in Washington D.C. to really address the needs of his flock. And he is, of course, in direct communication with God about the coming election and divinity’s role for Dubya.
The foresight of our founding fathers saw the dangers of entanglement with religion and government when they framed the Constitution and they separated the powers of Church and State. So what is it about morality that has the freedoms we have won from tyrants in the past so methodically abandoned in the here and now? As the Christian right swoons, its elect are walking away with one golf course after another and they are bereft of the beatitudes as they equate family, morality and special interests. When “families” realize that their kids will be coming home dead or manically deranged and the benefits of mindless endorsement manacles them to perpetual sorrow they will ask for change from conscientious leaders who are not out there to convince the oppressed of their personal role in sin.
As the powers that be mock virtue and play 'showdown' with Apocalypse
we might ask, with earnest, what the true meaning of abomination really is.
In the mean time, we are preaching democracy and practicing corporate theocracy and it’s against the law.
“When equals are treated unequally that is injustice.”
Loaded yes? But wait, he also said,
“When unequals are treated equally that is injustice.”
I am reminded of this when I see fundamentalists put in positions of governance over more qualified players. I believe in the Christ but I am not a member of ‘Club Jesus,’ or Pat Robertson’s TV ministry. You would think that a graduate of Yale Divinity School would know about Aristotle’s wisdom but apparently he is too busy masquerading his intentions in Washington D.C. to really address the needs of his flock. And he is, of course, in direct communication with God about the coming election and divinity’s role for Dubya.
The foresight of our founding fathers saw the dangers of entanglement with religion and government when they framed the Constitution and they separated the powers of Church and State. So what is it about morality that has the freedoms we have won from tyrants in the past so methodically abandoned in the here and now? As the Christian right swoons, its elect are walking away with one golf course after another and they are bereft of the beatitudes as they equate family, morality and special interests. When “families” realize that their kids will be coming home dead or manically deranged and the benefits of mindless endorsement manacles them to perpetual sorrow they will ask for change from conscientious leaders who are not out there to convince the oppressed of their personal role in sin.
As the powers that be mock virtue and play 'showdown' with Apocalypse
we might ask, with earnest, what the true meaning of abomination really is.
In the mean time, we are preaching democracy and practicing corporate theocracy and it’s against the law.
