Friday, June 08, 2007
A Series of Meaningless Poses
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Recent-events-wise, I sampled the debates and was impressed by how much attention was devoted to 'faith matters.' The candidates were stumbling all over themselves trying to prove their religious bona fides to a nation full of religious nutcakes! The whole scenerio brings to mind the saying that, 'Politics is a series of meaningless poses' (concept borrowed from the previous short video). Clearly, America does not yet understand the gruesome possibilities ahead in a modern scientific world full of people who think that there is yet another life beyond the grave!
It seems to me that western civilization was very fortunate to have an atheist adversary (the USSR) at the dawn of the Nuclear Age. The Soviets had no religious delusions at all and were therefore not anxious to enter the next world - overflowing with pussy though it might be. The Soviets were realists, therefore they were humanists. We were very fortunate to have them as our initial adversaries in the atomic age. Thank god we did not have to contend with, say, Iran, back in those days.
So I was not at all impressed with the various absurd protestations of 'faith' which permeated the recent Democratic and Republican debates. In fact, I was horrified. What crap!
Recent-events-wise, I sampled the debates and was impressed by how much attention was devoted to 'faith matters.' The candidates were stumbling all over themselves trying to prove their religious bona fides to a nation full of religious nutcakes! The whole scenerio brings to mind the saying that, 'Politics is a series of meaningless poses' (concept borrowed from the previous short video). Clearly, America does not yet understand the gruesome possibilities ahead in a modern scientific world full of people who think that there is yet another life beyond the grave!
It seems to me that western civilization was very fortunate to have an atheist adversary (the USSR) at the dawn of the Nuclear Age. The Soviets had no religious delusions at all and were therefore not anxious to enter the next world - overflowing with pussy though it might be. The Soviets were realists, therefore they were humanists. We were very fortunate to have them as our initial adversaries in the atomic age. Thank god we did not have to contend with, say, Iran, back in those days.
So I was not at all impressed with the various absurd protestations of 'faith' which permeated the recent Democratic and Republican debates. In fact, I was horrified. What crap!
