We are approaching a crisis in this country:

[PCIntern]

The irresistible force is inexorably moving towards the immovable object.

The theocratic movement has been either galloping or inching forward, depending upon the time-frame, for decades and the biological/evolutionary sexual wants and needs of humankind are awaiting the inevitable collision. The so-called liberal forces attempt to fend off the progress of the former, but like Stephen King's Langoliers, it is chewing up and decimating everything in its path.

I would submit that a book written a long time ago by, to paraphrase Mitt Romney, a couple of authors, entitled "When Worlds Collide" is an appropriate story which parallels this one. In the book, a pair of worlds, one huge, the other Earth-like, are headed towards the Earth and utter destruction is inevitable. The story chronicles one group of spaceship builders who attempt to land upon the smaller of the two planets following the decimation of the Earth, which they witness in Space. The travails which face them before they can take off are emblematic of humankind: panic, revolution, violence, and general insanity. Of course, after they land, in the second part, it starts to get interesting and conflict arises again, even though there are just a few folk left who managed to attain the new world in, to paraphrase Romney again, a couple of rockets.

We as a nation now lack positive direction, we are infighting on the one hand in the Name of the Lord and on the other hand, in the name of Science, of Constitutionality, and of Reason. We all know that orthodox religiosity is so inflexible as mandated by its scripture of governing body that the variability of humankind cannot survive it. The irony of course, is that those dedicated to its promulgation are often sullied by sins so great that Dante himself would be confused as to in which Circle of Hell the perpetrators belong.

All I can say at this point is, at least for now, Thank God that Ohio seems to be going our way. It is another postponement of The Day of Reckoning which is certainly going to occur down the road...or a couple of roads.

[oswaldactedalone]

1. Right on point

Lots of truthiness there.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. The day of reckoning delayed

Very well thought reasoning here. Rec

[get the red out]

3. This is what terrifies me most

The way I look at it, President Obama is all that stands between secular democracy and a country whose laws are interpreted (and remade) by a Supreme Court made up of the Christian version of the Mullahs of Iran. Years and years I've wondered why people claim that it's ok to vote Republican because it's "good for the stock market" and they aren't serious about all that religious fanatic stuff, they can't be, can they? (YES, THEY ARE!)

[Skidmore]

4. I think the war machine churned out the next step of turning the Cold War into endless hot wars.

Having neutralized that monster threat to civilization--godless communism, you insert the heat of setting on whose religion is the right one. How better to do that than fracture the world along the lines of Christian and Islamic nations, especially since you can tie it into energy policy too.

I've never had an appreciation of Marx's remarks on religion until the past few years. Religion is a singularly destructive force in the way no weapons program can be. It becomes a mind killer.


Adding: I just learned about this group yesterday in our state.

http://www.iowaatheists.org/drupal

I've been looking into secular humanist groups and no longer associate myself with any religious organization.

[CincyDem]

8. Repubs "good for the market" = BS

There a chart from Money Magazine (sorry - haven't learned how to link or insert pic).

It compares stock market performance under dems versus pubs for the past 80 years or so.

If you invested $10,000 in the S&P500 at the beginning of the Roosevelt Administration, kept it in the market for all the dem presidents and held it as cash during pub administrations...you would have $300,600 at the end of 2008. That's an annual gain of about 8.9%

Do the same thing for pub administrations since Hoover and you would have...wait for it...$11,700 in your account at the end of 2008. That's 0.4% annually. But let's be fair, Hoover had it tough...you know, being a business man and all that. Let's exclude his administration because, you know...with republicans it's ok to ignore history they don't like, right? Without Hoover you're 10k would be up to $51,200. A whopping 4.7% annual gain.

And that's only through 2008. The market has performed better in Obama's first 3.5 years than any other first term since Eisenhower so that 300k is probably upwards of 500k. (Not sure if the past couple days have changed that but probably not by much).

[get the red out]

9. I agree

Repubs refuse to, it's bizarre.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Don't thank God for Ohio going our way

Thank President Obama who had the intelligence and foresight to save the US auto industry. Even with a lot of liberals against doing it he still did the right thing and won 4 more years because it.

Don

[PCIntern]

6. It was an ironic deliberate "figure of speech". nt

[sendero]

7. The 27% that make up the..

.. god-Tards are never going to get the power they seek. Never.

They have peaked and with every idiotic overreaching pronouncement like "God might will a rape to create a fetus" they lose a few more sane people.

Also, demographics is firmly against them as boomers die off and non white Americans take their place.

I have worries, but that is not one of them.

[marions ghost]

11. I like your positive view

& I hope "they have peaked."

Sanity v Insanity, and I hope enough choose sanity.

[marions ghost]

10. I wish this was an exaggeration...

You illustrate the polarization of these surreal times well. It has broken down into two political/social realities.

God vs Reason. Well I'm not sure the two are separate. Not an either/or situation. Not an all bad (religion) vs all good (science) dichotomy. Everything is a belief system to cope with this unfathomable state of physical existence. Science could dominate to our detriment as well as religion. A balance between the two might be the best we're gonna get. But I certainly agree that the threat to democracy that fundy religious fervor represents is real and immediate. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that we are holding the line against it with the election of Obama and Dems.

You may be right about the Day of Reckoning.