I’ve seen a lot of slogans and stickers about “Take our country back to God” or “God will come back to America, when America comes back to God”.   I often wonder which of the many gods that exist for the different religions and nationalities that make up this country is THE God.  I know which one they THINK is THE God, because it seems that there is a very vocal Christian community.   One that helped elect, and then re-elect, President Bush…

No, what I’m talking about is taking our country back to the principles that founded this nation, back to the reasons for this country, to the Founding Fathers.  Listening to Carolyn Myss talk about what the spiritual ideals were for this country as a “sacred contract”; ideas such as FREEDOM for all, the archetypes of the Mystic, the Rebel, and the Slave/Master, and how (as so many others have pointed out) that there was definitely a SEPARATION of church and state, for good reasons.

Watching Bill Maher’s Religulous (though definitely designed for laughs) also highlights some of the absurdities of some of the religions followed without question by followers. Without the ability to question, and also laugh at, your own thoughts, you become as rigid and dogmatic as the institutions of religion.

Perhaps the time has come for those who don’t represent ONE particular, historical religion to start voicing their desire for mental and physical liberation. Liberation from old, outmoded beliefs along with freedom from fear (often caused by the economic inequalities that capitalism helps perpetuate). And, perhaps, we can all find our voice with a new, more compassionate presidential administration…

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