When Faith Doesn’t Work Anymore, There’s Always law

Many Christians believe that morality is born from the 10 Commandments, and that those who do not have a personal relationship with their God cannot possibly be moral individuals. This might be the reason that members of the Texas School Board feel it’s perfectly acceptable to indoctrinate their children into the school of fear and superstition; ultimately training their minds to be void of reason.

Thanks to global information being available with the click of a finger, the issue of “fear”, that is the driving force behind the search for an individual’s spiritual connection to the almighty unknown, is dissolving further each day. This comes even as the fear of our disruptive planet is growing with every natural and man-made disaster that is brought into our living rooms by way of the television each night.

Most people who hold faith in gods will argue against the notion that they harbor any “fear”; they know what they believe in, and that actually provides comfort for them rather than fear. But if it’s not from fear, then why believe in gods; why not let curiosity thrive and allow the search for truth to continue? With this question we are brought right back to “fear”, for those who use “God” as their answer to what is still a mystery to us, either fears the unknown, or fears science finding another instance where God is not the answer. The thought of dying without fulfilling a life’s purpose is a monumental fear of many. Likewise, dying without having someplace to go is as equally significant. Without the careful, and directing hand of a god these things are simply unattainable.

Now, in the age of hyper-information, we are given the opportunity to learn what the world outside the small town is all about. We no longer have to be led by spiritual guides as we learn that morals are not god’s gift, but purely instinctual. The global movement of Humanists is a perfect example of people living perfectly moral lives without gods. Of course, there will always be those who have chemical imbalances, and who might very well have an altered view of the right and wrong ways to treat all things great and small. And those effected by these imbalances are woven throughout every belief system, since they are essentially woven throughout the genes of the individual.

In some unfortunate parts of our nation, these people who have a great fear of science’s ever-progression toward truth, are fighting back tooth and nail. The really don’t want to know that their lives are without purpose, and that everything they’ve always held as truth was entirely false. They don’t want to learn that it’s a fact that we share a common ancestry with monkeys, and sure don’t want to  learn that the more liberally-minded Americans were right all along. They are so fearful of what they may learn that they chose to break commandment by lying to their own children, so they’ll remain fearfully ignorant to reality.

Just last week we watched the Texas School Board - mostly made up of people whose experience as historians is zilch - reform our children’s history books so their kids will be kept from learning factual information. They have the Separation of Church and State – specifically implied within our First Amendment rights so as to keep government out of churches, and churches out of government – nagging at their beliefs, because they want to instill only their religion into our laws. They want nothing more than to close off everyone’s mind to everything but their own beliefs, and influence a nation to be as lost on the road of progress as they are. 

Our forefathers knew one thing; they would form our government to be free of religious preference. Now they’re being demonized by “educators” of our nation’s history. To keep people of a specific religion from having the same access to “All men are created equal,” the Christian right would gladly rewrite the Constitution, as we saw in their support for George W. Bush’s pen when it struck Habeas Corpus from the writ.

If the Texas School Board members held no fear of the legitimacy of their beliefs, they would not fight back so hard against knowledge, and would simply instill God into their children by taking them to Sunday School, as opposed to creating laws that force their dogma into the Public School.