Thursday, July 12, 2012
Playing the Religion Card; NY Mayor Bloomberg
Just like some hard-core Obama opponents who will play the race card, some Romney opponents are playing the religion card. An example is "Bloomberg Business Week." This magazine started out years ago as a conservative pro-business publication but in 2009 was sold to the left-leaning Bloomberg LP. They named an editor who came from the left-leaning Time magazine. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg,who is part of the ownership group has publicly remained neutral on the Presidential race, but reportedly will definitely not endorse Romney because of Romney's stands on guns and abortion. . Interestingly, Mayor Bloomberg is generally a conservative when it come to economics, but very liberal (anti-gun, Nanny state, etc.) on social and related issues.
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On one level, this is encouraging. If enough of this discussion occurs, it would seem likely that an adult, intelligent electorate would grasp the true nature of the delusional con-artistry that underlies the entire lot of it. The unscrupulous religious pandering that flows from both major parties is beyond embarrassing, it gives rise to the fear that Americans are collectively losing their minds.
ReplyDeleteThere is such a thing as religious freedom in this country. I'd say Bloomberg's publications have demonstrated the ugliest type of discrimination. It's typical behavior by socialist wannabes regardless of their partisan affiliation. Such undermining attacks on a person's private faith is non-American.
ReplyDelete"Attacks on a person's private faith" are the descriptions cited by religious police to justify blasphemy prohibitions in authoritarian theocracies. It isn't the "attacks on private faith" that we need be concerned about . . . it's the attacks upon the rule of law and evidence-based reality mounted by those citing the requirements of their faith in an effort to make it quite public.
ReplyDeleteYou overlooked what I said about " ... religious freedom in this country.". Something authoritarian theocracies also prohibit. In addition to freedom of faith, Most Americans also believe in separation of church and state. IMHO, this is a reasonable perspective.
ReplyDeleteWe're in violent agreement here . . . unfortunately there's a chasm between your expressed sentiments and the observable behaviors and exhortations of the religious right ----- and because the candidates want those votes, they are extremely reluctant to be honest with the evangelicals. "In God We Trust" has no roots in the Constitution, it was forced upon our currency in another wave of this "rapture" that occurred between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the 20th century. My concern was expressed well by Moynihan on the floor of the Senate when he held that we are all entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts. Humanity is imperiled by people who "Believe" that the universe IS whatever they want it to be.
ReplyDeleteAmerica's motto "In God we trust" is a general term that doesn't follow any particular religious belief. For deist and theist alike, it's simply recognizing man's existence in the universal theme of life. Respecting people's individual rights and freedoms is an example of the motto's meaning. For this reason alone, I think the term fits very well.
ReplyDeleteThis said, I do agree there's religious zealots from all sects that simply don't get it.