This past year has been the year of religion in politics, which is the one place religion does not belong. I don't know how the fact that Mitt Romney was a Mormon affected his loss in the Presidential election, but I'm going to a guess and say "not much". Most people do not know anything about the Mormon church, just like most people don't know much about being a Buddha. I find the Mormon religion strange, but you cannot deny the fact that they do help people all over the world.
There was no "war on religion". To find the reasoning behind that term it was like playing a maze game. You hit several dead ends until you finally found your way through. By the time you reached the end, you forgot what you were looking for.
Fox news and their angry staff have no clue about the people in this country. They repeatedly reported on the non-existent war on religion. They made the ride-wing religious Republicans foam at the mouth. They don't get it that many of us turn them on for entertainment. Their parade of blondes is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Michelle Malkin has an angry puss on her face and as a mother, it makes me want to scream, "stop making faces or your face will freeze that way!" Bill O'Reilly is pathetic and he always has been. I live in Connecticut and I remember just how pathetic he really was. He used to work for a local news station and someone got hold of a taped phone call he made to a prostitute, drunk and whining about how lonely he was. True story.
The frosting that topped the cake was Rick Santorum. He really carried things a bit too far. It's one thing to try and make religion a part of politics, but it got downright creepy when he told the story of bringing home the baby that was aborted to save his wife's life. If his children need therapy later on in life, that experience might be a good place to start.
The first President that actually brought religion into the White House was Jimmy Carter. He was an Evangelical Christian from Georgia and he started his day with praying. He just said that praying was a part of his life. OK. Nothing wrong with that, because it started and ended there. He didn't try to convert the country, his staff, or anyone else. I suspect that President Obama has his moments of asking God for things. He probably did the night the raid on bin Laden compound was happening. He's not an atheist, because coming from an atheist I know one when I see one. If I was President, the first thing I would do is remove the words "In God We Trust" from all US currency. Obama's not going to do that.
Most of our Founding Father's didn't seem to have a glowing respect for religion. Perhaps the idea of the whole reason they were here because their predecessors had fled England for religious freedom and it was still fresh in their minds. They made it very clear that government and religion didn't mix. They created a vague Constitutions and a vague Bill of Rights, probably hoping both would survive the next hundred years. I wonder what they would think today. We are one of the few nations in this world who respect and use a document written two hundred years ago to guide us. No one throws it out and says "let's write a new one."
Say what you want, but stop throwing Jesus and God at us and saying it's Freedom of Religion. Your religious freedom means you can worship in any church you want; and some us can chose not to practice any religion. It doesn't mean we love this country any less, it just means we love it without piety.
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