I was hoping human brains would have evolved after four hundred years but alas, it might take another 100,000 years for that to happen and by that time, there may not be a human race *to evolve*.
This article in Le Monde is far too depressing for a jolly holiday such as Christmas: God dominates American presidential elections (loose translation from French). I am not anti-God or anti-religion, but I believe that one’s religious beliefs are a PRIVATE matter and imposing them on someone else is a recipe for violence and disaster as Europeans discovered over the course of 200 years, between (roughly) 1560 and 1715.
Quiet spirituality, working on your own salvation (whatever that means to you) is the key to living harmoniously with neighbors. Requiring politicians to prove they deserve five stars in the religious sweepstakes is unworkable. A politican’s response should be: none of your bloody business! And it should be everyone’s response when asked to prove oneself more “religious” or spiritual or whatever.
I can think of more pressing problems in this world, problems which we don’t know how US politicians plan to tackle because Americans are too busy making them talk about religion:
- global warming
- wars in a lot of places
- starvation, lack of clean water
- refugees
- AIDS
- illiteracy
- nuclear weapons in the hands of unsavoury people
The world has, so far, looked to the US to solve a lot of problems since it’s been unofficially designated the World’s Policeman. But the Policeman seems to have left his post, if one is to believe the Le Monde article.
