Church & State -- or just Church?

[wcepler]

Church & State -- or just Church?

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Whatever happened to the American constitutional separation of church and state? Or for that matter, whatever happened to our constitution? Remember the American Constitution? Remember our treasured Bill of Rights? Our forefathers fought and died for these noble documents!

Even former President Jimmy Carter, certainly a moral hero of our times, felt the need to caution us in the 3/19/03 New York Times about "spokesmen of the Southern Baptist Convention who are greatly influenced by their commitment to Israel based on scatological, or final days, theology." Hey, how about FIRST days, how about planning for our children's FUTURES?

Doomsdayers have been around for millennia, so this is nothing new, but this is certainly the first time they've ever pulled the strings of American foreign policy.

Think of all the images these days, the shoes that fit. We're now on a "new crusade" (we should remember what happened after the last few), and isn't "might makes right" or "the end justifies the means" simply the Holy Inquisition or Salem Witch Trials all over again? In a country and world of laws, the end DOESN'T justify the means! This is a recipe for chaos, for righteous tyranny.

Surely the painful irony here is that most practitioners of the world's great religions are embarrassed if not horrified by these death obsessed cults. What ever happened to gentle Jesus? Whatever happened to the Hebrew prophets (those beacons of justice)? Whatever happened to the gracious and civilized gardens of Islam? Isn't it about time we put all this death/hate/righteousness behind us? A prayer for peace would be nice.

wcproteus
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[Crunchy Frog]

1. The word is "eschatological"

not "scatological".

Eschatology (from the Greek ἔσχατος meaning "last" + -logy) is a part of theology and philosophy concerned with the final events in the history of the world or the ultimate destiny of human kind, commonly phrased as the end of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology

scatology is the study of feces. In psychology, scatology is an obsession with excretion or excrement, or the study of such obsessions. (See also coprophilia). In sexual context scatology refers to sexual acts conducted with human (or other) excrement. In literature, "scatological" commonly describes works that make particular reference to excretion or excrement, as well as to toilet humor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatology

You might have more success getting your points across if you could learn to write in English.

[sarcasmo]

2. This is the start of a Theocracy.