Cline's Blog

Leaders, Pundits and Experts in Science, Education, Religion and Politics debate about "god, church, and state" using Bronze Age arguments irrelevant in the Information Age.

The myth about god probably originated 50,000 years ago during prehistoric story-telling gatherings around the first great technological develpment in history: MANMADE FIRE!

About 10,000 years ago history came into existence with the development of writing!

Hebrew writings recorded an original "creation story" (Genesis) and today Judism, Christianity, and Islam perpetuate varying versiuons of the ancient tradition.

In the beginning humans relied largely on intuition and animal instinct for survival.  To communicate with each other, languages were developed.  Some individuals asked themselves the question that five-year-olds today ponder: "Where did I come from?"

How would you answer that question with language consisting largely only of nouns?

As the words were developed, answers began to be evolve.  According to The Gospel of St. John, "In the beginning was the word and the word was God."

As prehistoric storytellers prognosticated in answering the "where did humans come from" question they incapsulated all of the cosmic events prior to the existence of planet earth into the word GOD!

All that ever was, is, or ever will be (called God) is also a general definition of the recent discovery called invisible (dark) matter/energy occupying what was previously believed to be empty space filling all atoms and outer space!  (A vacuum, like an electron, atom, etc., only exists in theory!)

Humans developed church, state, religion and politics -- and all are under God!  However; with the power of superstition and stone axes, and their current counterparts, it became politically incorrect to openly speak of reliance on personal independence and freedom from "institutions."

In the former Soviet Union this was openly proclaimed in their constitution. 

Separation of church and state, eminent domain over all property, equal recognition of licensed and common-law marriage, unrestricted abortion by any licensed physician, divorce automatically granted by postcard sent to the government, and other practices were the law of the land -- as well as official denial of the existence of "God."

Until the 1960's, people in The United States did not consider these ideas  legal or moral. 

At that time Communist political ambitions that surfaced shortly after World War Two with the establishment of The Progressive Party under the leadership of former Vice President, Henry Wallace, began to take root again.  Tom Hayden and the Chicago Seven insinuated it into popular antiestablishmentarian Marxist philosophies of that time.

The anti-war propaganda of the 1960's denied the existence of a Cold War.  It was so successful that, although Congress recognized the "Cold War Victory" with a commemorative medal, the whole world missed the fact that bloodshed and suffering during the time from the Iron Curtain to the Berlin Wall was really World War Three with many major battles including Korea and Vietnam!

The underlying reason for opposition to "One Nation Under God"  hinges upon what the meaning of "God" is today instead of the meaning 50,000 years ago!

I commit myself to live in harmony with everyone; to harm no one physically, emotionally, financially; to encourage others to do likewise; and to defend against all threats to life, liberty, and pursuit of joy.

Blessed Be!

Cline.

P.S. The undermining of American Democracy is not only from the "left," as Tom Hayden would have it, but also from the "right,"  as James Carville so successfully set forth in his religious and political hatred propaganda.  Extremes to the left and to the right all and always lead to totalitarianism.