Our Established Religion?

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Here is a very in depth and thoughtful column by Jonathan David Carson, Ph.D. in the American Thinker.

It is long, but very worthwhile reading. Here's an excerpt from the beginning:

[[ We’re like a condemned man who worries about the preservatives in his last meal or its cholesterol content. We’ll worry about anything but our real worries. If we lived in Sudan, we’d worry about cell phone radiation or the wrinkles around our eyes. The worse our problems are, the more we agonize about something else.

I exaggerate? We live in by far the richest country in the history of the world, and what do politicians talk about? Money. We have cocaine addicts who eat organic foods, animal rights activists distraught over the deaths of gorillas in Uganda, and people terrified that Bush will discover what books they are checking out of the library and put them in concentration camps. Divorced couples fight in front of their children and are horrified by accounts of child abuse. Teachers complain about the stultifying effects of rote learning as their students learn nothing. Educators worry that their charges have read too many literary classics and not enough trash. Civil libertarians warn of a police state when most of us see police officers only when driving past them as they ticket speeders. We go years, decades, with no contact with the police whatsoever. ]]

This sort of spot-on observation is carried on throughout the column and leads us to the conclusion that "scientism" is the real religion of today's culture. As most of us already know, liberals worship the party and this is exactly where that road will take us.

[[ The United States will have an established religion, if it does not have one already, that justifies its establishment with the transparent fiction that it is not a religion, that its saints, shamans, oracles, apostles, and God provide spiritual sustenance without ever breaching the wall of separation between "supernatural and paranormal speculations" and the repressive apparatus of the state.

Scientism is inherently totalitarian. Since it is "a scientific worldview that encompasses natural explanations for all phenomena" [emphasis added], it leaves no room whatsoever for any other worldview. Everything else is "supernatural and paranormal speculations" that must be rejected as unscientific and allowed no place in government as a matter of law and no place in society as a matter of justice. ]]

Go soak in all the goodness of this column.

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