World Ordered New

Hello, I'm reeling with a lot of new ideas gathered from you people, and this is a rewrite of my first blog entry which basically sucked.

Here's one of the main reasons I came here.

My brain was altered by the Methodists' "dogmagicians" starting when I was almost 6 years old.

Before then, my agnostic dad kept religion out of my life and off my back, but my mother couldn't live with herself, let alone anyone else, so she split and I got moved into her parents' home and church.

Something has to give, when the people you love and trust tell you with a straight face that a guy was killed and then a few days later, he woke up and walked out of the tomb and flew up to heaven where he's been hanging out ever since, waiting for the big day.

So what exactly is it that gives?

Kids in the cult I was forced into get the dogma drill around 5 or 6, by which time they've begun to feel good about their ability to figure things out for themselves.

Before I moved in with my grandparents, I never had any thoughts about death, or what it was like. There were plenty of dead dogs and cats on the roads for me to see what happens - dead don't move, dead stinks, dead get buried in the "dying garden." Dead don't get up and walk around.

Well, here comes the men in suits and they're all shaking my grandpa's hands and smiling and acting all nice and then I get dropped off to the "sunday school" room and my grandparents go to their class, where they've got big donuts and I get to have coffee.

Let the carnage begin!

Either I consider my grandparents to be liars or I consider my reasoning skills to be flawed.

It wasn't an easy choice, so I rationalized the hell out of the problem and just figured I'd keep praying so I wouldn't die.

I'm not sad or mad for the fact I had my inner child put to sleep, along with most of my curiosity, for 40 years. The fact I emerged and can serve as a witness for the defense of reason is a cause for celebration and the fuel for my fires.

Would anyone care to set me straight or encourage me to pursue Quixotic quests for the cure of cult-comas?

Time is of the essence, because the window through which we might effect laws that will protect children from such neurological damage may not be open much longer.

I'm speaking of the window that was opened by Bush & Co.'s "war on terror."

It is a common tactic for the weak to use the weapons of the strong against them.

In this case, the nation of "sheeple" have been sufficiently scared into blind submission to Bush & Co.'s covert war on our US Constitution and the individual liberties it was designed to protect.

The weapon of fear worked well enough to get the Patriot Act passed, why not use it to get an act designed to protect us against further recruitment by "terrorists" we've been told are the radical Islamic militants?

Now that we've done such a great job securing our borders to keep out the militants who live abroad, it's logical to assume that our domestic Muslim population will be the most likely place from which future members of Al Qaeda will be found.

Since we are a nation founded on the principles of "equality" it will be necessary for all of us to sacrifice our right to raise our children to believe as we believe, so as to keep the radical Muslims from raising their children to believe they must engage in suicide bombings in the name of Allah.

The US Constitution forbids Congress from enacting laws that establish religion OR from prohibiting "the free exercise thereof."

Accordingly, Congress should, in the interest of national security, enact a law that prohibits any exercise thereof which is not "free." That would prohibit parents from forcing their children to exercise religion (based on irrational dogmas that damage developing reason) when they are not free to do so under their own volition.

We have forced parents who are Christian Scientists to allow the state to apply medical treatment to their sick children, despite the parents' "right" to the free exercise of their religion's beliefs that no such treatment should be given.

Is it unreasonable to think that we ought to intervene and stop parents from inflicting permanent damage on their children through forced beliefs in irrational dogmas?