This is in response to Mike Huckabee's lame speech about
"God" and "our culture". I started to post it on Facebook,
but it was getting too long. Imagine that!
As for the title: Thanks, Mr. Melville!
Re: Mike Huckabee's measured speech on "Where is God in all
this?" He gets it partly right. We have "marched 'God' out of our
culture". But not God, the Creator of all things. Rather, God the Concept.
You can't kick out the Creator no matter how hard you try. And this
"Concept" of God just happens to be someone who condoned everything
that White people did in this country for two hundred years. Interesting.
Some guy said a while back that you can't serve two masters. Well,
we've certainly tried to prove him wrong, haven't we? In true schizophrenic
fashion, our culture tells us we can be both materialistic and spiritual at the
same time. And, like idiots, we try. Just like when "Church" and
"State" get together, the Church always comes out getting the raw end
of the deal, so it is with our materialistic predilections and our spiritual
yearnings. We give up our spiritual selves to our own detriment and the
detriment of all those around us. With the goal of amassing more
"things" we become selfish, egocentric, and insular. Now, think about
the truly spiritual people that you know: you admire them, but do you emulate
them? Would be dangerous, wouldn't it?
Huckabee clearly shows his secular bias when he claims that all
this started fifty years ago. Curiously, that's about the same time that we
started honoring the concept of freedom and liberty for ALL Americans. As long
as spirituality is perceived as something "nice" (like Hummel figures
on the mantel, as we've done in this country for hundreds of years) and not
that which informs and directs every thought and every breath, we will be
victims of our own folly--the latest example occurring in Newtown, Connecticut.
Morals and ethics change because they are man-made. Spirituality springs from
the Creator; therefore, it is timeless.
Just as we work in homeless shelters or food banks and never
question why such disparities exist, so too do we flock to comfort those in
great distress and all the time never ask why we have allowed things to get so
bad.
It's not the ACLU and "atheists" who have "marched
God out of our culture", it's the "well-meaning" Church with
guidance and direction from Madison Avenue. "We have met the enemy, and he
is us."
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