Religion and Politics

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Again I accompanied my wife and kids to Church. And being an objective Atheist, I again listened with an open mind to the Pastor. As it turns out, the Pastor of the church reinforced most of the points Obama stated in the above speech; the main one being that there is nothing more divisive than politics, except religion. We can call ourselves a "Christian" nation, but which Christianity would we use? The Old-testament bible thumper version or the new testament love-thy-neighbor-reagardless-of-faith-Sermon-on-the-Mount version (the latter of which I believe to be "true" Christianity, but what do I know)?

The fact is if we declared Christianity as the official religion of this nation, this nation would reduce itself to civil war because the Catholics would disagree with the Protestants and evangelicals would want their say, etc. etc...

Freedom of religion or lack thereof is one of the things that keeps our beautiful country and other Democracies at peace. You only need to look at history and the current state of the Middle East to see examples of when one religion was used to divide people and nations. On the flip-side when religion is declared illegal, those nations are doomed to fail as well.

The fact of the matter is, its freedom that people want, not restrictions. Religion only serves to restrict some and embolden others. Freedom for all means freedom of religion and freedom from religion or it is not freedom.

Love on the other hand is Universal and that is what we should focus on, regardless of the source love is love. Religion that creates divisions and hate is not Christianity because it is not Christ-like.

As both our Pastor and Obama says, "people gotta read their Bibles."