synthaetic synapse

Look, this is a real simple thing. The country was founded by mostly-Christian individuals who were possessed of the foresight, maturity, and wherewithal to understand that the edicts of the religions and religious denominations had no place with an operable role in government. In fact, they made incredible sacrifices to distance themselves from their European church-states. In fact, they made great sacrifices, including their livelihoods, the lives of their family members, and in many cases their own lives, to ensure the separation of Church and State. The Mike Huckabees in the world that want to interject specifically religious dogma into the the Constitution have it exactly wrong, and every time they spout those desires, they prove that their eclectic version of America is not what America was founded to be, or has ever been. It’s not the America that our soldiers have fought and died to preserve. And it’s not an America that would have any hope of participating in a future in which the human race survives.

The Blogswarm Against Theocracy starts today and ends this Sunday. I will be attempting to have unique posts on these four blogs:

1. the otherwhirled
2. perpetual dawnne
3. synthaetica
4. mock, paper, scissors (thanks, Tengrain!)

{this opening post has been cross-posted to my three blogs as a way of saying “yes, i’m here, and no, i’m not going to let the bizarre mortgage triangle we currently living under adversely affect my ability to post this weekend!}

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this Easter weekend, several thousand of us will be participating in the first-ever “Blog Against Theocracy”. i am awaiting permission from the owner of Clean Cut Kid, where i do most of my political blogging, for us to support and participate the endeavor as a whole. i’m never quite sure how things will play out over there. there is also a chance i may get to guest-blog over at Mock, Paper, Scissors as well.

while i have nothing at all against religion per se (except for the way some people choose to abuse its power), i believe quite strongly that the recent, and still on-going, attempts by neoconservatives to emplace and enforce legislation that would represent theocratic rule needs to be stopped. there is no benefit to be had from an ideological reversion of several hundred years.

if you blog, i hope you’ll consider participating in “Blog Against Theocracy”. yes, the acronym would be BAT, because we are all no doubt batty, right? bah. i will not be cross-posting that content here, so you’ll need to check on CCK and MPS to see if we get the go-ahead.