The level of hate, racism, xenophobia and violence in the United States is exceeded by no other country on the planet and is the result of this weaponizing of religion from the Christian Right. From the actions and policies arising from the corrupt and hegemonistic “Monroe Doctrine” that have caused untold suffering and death to unknown countless people in Central and Latin America, to the atrocious legacy of what was done to the Native Indians on this continent, to the twisted logic used by President Harry Truman to incinerate Nagasaki and Hiroshima with the atomic bomb, there is nothing remotely “christian” about this country. Climate change, also an existential threat and a close second to nuclear annihilation, can only be mitigated, not prevented with both threats a result of hubris, greed, the almost worldwide adoption of the failed NeoLiberal economic model and the willful ignorance of science.įrom a purely agnostic and neutral point of view and contrary to popular misconceptions, the United States was never, nor is it now, a “Christian Nation” the actions of this country’s leaders over the previous century have borne this out. At the time of the country’s inception and ratification of the constitution, they couldn’t have imagined the weapons that would eventually be developed, weapons that amount to nothing less than an existential threat to the existence of our species and to civilization as we know it. The founding fathers of the United States were wise in codifying the separation of church and state into the constitution.
Are we citizens of a modern, progressive society, educated in science, allowing our actions to be governed by science and reason or are we to remain slaves to ancient mythical demons? The late Carl Sagan, in his 1995 book “ The Demon-Haunted World, Science as a Candle In the Dark” warns of exactly what is happening today and how reliance on science, reason, thought and collaboration is the antidote to a society that has, quite literally, gone mad. Related articles linked at the foot of this page