The following is an essay that I submitted in my English Composition class. It is my sincerest hope that you will enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
The Affects of Organized Religion on American Society:
A Perspective of Loyalty
There are two types of loyalty that one can subscribe to; loyalty to the book, wordism, or loyalty to kin. Wordism is Universalist; they claim to have the words to unite mankind. Wordist loyalty is divided into millions of factions, each proclaiming that they and they alone have the proper set of words. A Marxist can be just as wordist as an extreme muslim who is just as wordist as the televangelist, who says to the poor folks in Appalachia, Jesus wants you to adopt a starving colored boy, AMEN!
Organized Religion is one arm of wordism. The members have devoted their loyalty to what is contained in the book or the official decrees from the lords. These decrees and interpretations have a way of changing. An interpretation one way, may change tomorrow and what was righteous, holy, and morally sound yesterday, may as well be the fecal material of Lucifer today. However these sudden changes in loyalty are dangerous to anyone who is in the business of loyalty, because said wordists will justify their stabbing of you in the back with some obscure misinterpreted passage in their book.
When these states were united in confederation, there existed anti-miscegenation laws on the books of every state. While the anti-miscegenation case of Loving V. Virginia, 1967 was before the supreme court, the churches took the time to say to the congregation “that it matters not what color they are but as long as they are members of the faith.” It doesn’t matter what the kid is going to look like or how he feels, all that matters is that the parents were “in love” and united by the right words. The Supreme Court called the anti-miscegenation laws “unconstitutional.” This display of wordism supported judicial activism and paved the groundwork for the now infamous case called Roe V. Wade, 1973 and they wonder just WHERE the court attained such a power! Suddenly, because it crossed THEIR book, judicial activism was Lucifer’s poop.
In the 1980’s when in vitro fertilization was a hot topic, the professional Pro-Lifers argued that it should be banned because it destroyed a few embryos in the process. They claimed that the life of the embryo was as precious as a human’s and that it was morally wrong and damming its soul to hell because it would die unbaptized, and that it was irresponsible when you could adopt a starving colored boy. However it was the infertile woman’s duty to keep trying and losing the fertilized embryos by natural means. The difference? It was the lab. Today there are over one-hundred-thousand people alive in the US due to in vitro fertilization. All of which were wanted, which cannot be said about random birth.
Today the issue is embryonic stem cells. They say the same things they said about in vitro. However, the parity of life between a blob of cells and a human who is suffering always goes to the suffering human. They insist that every moment of human life is infinitely precious. They care not that you actually live with any quality of life, but that your heart beats. These people are hardly Pro-Life, they are pro-heart thump! This is what their wordism requires of them at the moment.
When wordism claims to unite society in a Universalist doctrine, it brings few if any positives to society. Wordism destroys freedom of speech and thought, for at the moment you disagree with what the book of the wordists says, you don’t just disagree, you are a HERETIC, and Heretics were traditionally punished with execution.
#1 by Dave on 8/3/2009 - 2:10 am
This is a wonderful essay because it is about precisely what is always forgotten.
Words inevitably reflect the emotions of the speaker and writer.
But what activists and ideologues forget is that emotions are always first and primary.
So there is this endless forgetting, just endless forgetting, about how easy it is to be in error (about what you think is actually true).
#2 by phil white on 4/27/2011 - 11:08 pm
1. 100,000 people are alive today becasue of invetrio.
According to Horus white rabbit survival has never depended on numbers. One white adam and eve will run rings around a million gorillas.
2. Invetrio usually amounts to no more than 4 embryos at once. Usually two or three are implanted. Why not just freeze the couple of extras so they can be implanted in a couple more years, resulting in the big white families you want?
3. Destroying life in stem cell research is not someting we prolifers are fighting. We are fighting GOVERNMENT FUNDING of stem cell research for the same reason we resist GOVERNMENT SANCTION through marriage of homosexual unions. It puts the stamp of approval on the process/situation.
If GOVERNMENT funding can do reaserch the Howard Hughes Medical center can’t do then I guess your conservative view of the infalliable wisdom of your precious market is wrong.
In starting down the slippery slope you are assisting the left toward their gaols of universal moral acceptance of mass aboriton.
#3 by phil white on 4/27/2011 - 11:33 pm
And one more thing young whiper snapper, you take the word of the Main Stream Media that embryonic stem cells are the only ones suiteable for research. They want you to belive that so they can force a social consensus that concieved life provisionally has value, depending on what some grown up wants or “needs” such as an abortion.
Actually adult stem cells are already known to be useable for almost all research.
The left media can find any number of left scientist to say only embryonic cells can be used, just as they can get any number of left wing scientist to say global warming is an imminent threat.
And you believe what Mommy professor Main Stream Media feeds you.
I don’t get my morals out of the Bible. They are in the heart.
Morals didn’t suddenly appear among men only when some one learned to write them down.
You don’t get to tell me where my feelings come from. I define that.