Thursday, February 07, 2008
Theocracy
THIS week [Jan 19] the Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee proposed that the US constitution be brought more in line with God's law in the Bible.
"I [Huckabee] believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards."Now this scares the hell out of me. It's bad enough the Middle and Near East are full of religious fanatics who are trying to get rid of the secular government and replace it with one they feel supports their vision of religion. Now we have an American who is thinking about the same thing.
If Huckabee gets in, I can see the next couple of years making the medieval crusades look tame. A weapon of mass destruction back in those days was a big rock - today it's a nuke. Can you picture the American flag now being the cross-spangled banner? The amount of religion in today's politics is getting very scary, especially when one of the front runners is already calling for Constitutional amendments to better match the bible. Once they - there's that infamous they again - get their hooks into that, how much longer before we'll be teaching that man played with dinosaurs and the earth is stationary (poor Galileo is probably moaning, oh no, not again...).
Labels: freedom, government, religion
