Religion and Politics

I can remember as a youngster growing up with a great deal of honor and pride for the President of the United States. My first president was Dwight D Eisenhauer. I can't remember much about him. I knew that he was an ex-military man. Of course I remember Nixon and Kennedy. There has been a disdain for both religion and politics in our country for as long as I can remember and these two segments of our society are what hold it together. Religion and politics are full of opinions and so many want to steer clear of any thing that demands a choice. In other words, just leave me a lone and let me do my own thing. Many of us are completely unaware that it is a minority of Americans that guide the politics and religion that form and shape our lives both good and bad. There are a lot of non-voters and there are a lot of non-churched Americans that are indifferent to the Political and Religious institutions. Some folks have always been indifferent and a new group of defectors has arisen that were once committed to those institutions that are now burnt out and disillusioned by the ineffectiveness of both.



I know that most of the conservatives would bet their money that Jesus is a republican and the Liberals think that Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and many more are joint heirs in the Democratic party. The once popular melting pot of society is fast becoming a boiling pot because more and more of the issues are starting to divide people rather than unify. You can see it in poltics and religion. It seems like we are divided right down the middle. We call that checks and balances. I call it a divide that is so deep that we cannot get anything done. There is very little bipartisan politics and religion is anything but eccumenical. Yep, we're all happy doing our own thing. That's the price of freedom. God and America have both given us complete freedom to choose and what have we done with those choices. What a responsibilty.