Service to foreign gods

[thedarkages]

Reading today's Los Angeles Times, with its A-section stories of how fundamentalists are strong-arming companies into paying obeisance to "Christmas" and how the FCC chief is threatening to derail the merger of the top two cable companies unless the cable industry censors itself, I have come to a conclusion as to what this country needs. Much as it pains me to make use of another religion's ideas, this country needs the Rapture. By an act of God, the religious right would disappear from the earth. However, since this is my imagination, this would be followed not by Tribulations but by a new era of peace and comity.

It's the same problem that has bedeviled man since the foundation of democratic institutions: how do you preserve pluralism when the institution can be commandeered by people who are not pluralistic? The paradoxical answer: let God figure that one out.

Comments

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

fundamentalists are strong-arming companies into paying obeisance to "Christmas"

While I certainly deplore the strong-arm tactics of the Religious Right, I find the whole "Happy Holidays" concept disingenuous at best. It's obvious that stores aren't encouraging people to do anything but shop for Christmas, so why slap a transparently phony, secular happyface on top of a transparently phony religious holiday? I actually know conservative Christians who feel it's a sin to celebrate Christmas because it's a "pagan holiday".

As for the Rapture, it's not totally accepted as dogma amongst a lot of evangelical Christians of any political persuasion, but as you said, it's your imagination at work...:-)