The Bible, a primitive tribal text about a jealous and vicious god, presents major incompatibilities with the United States' Constitution. Taking an oath on the Bible has very deeply deleterious effects on the notion of progress, and on what we can.
SEPARATE STATE AND SUPERSTITION.
January 19, 2009 by Patrice Ayme
OR THE REPUBLIC WILL KNOW AN OMINOUS FATE.
Why do most United States Presidents swear to "defend and protect the US Constitution", while taking their oath over the Bible?
Because nobody in the USA can find a copy of the Constitution of the republic, on which to take said oath? Just asking.
Why did Theodore Roosevelt refuse to take his oath by using the Bible?
Because T. Roosevelt wanted to show that Church and State should be separated. Although he was a devout Christian and a Bible fanatic, Roosevelt remembered that the US Constitution is very clear on the principle of separation of State and religion.
That principle of separation was reinforced by a joint work of the first two US Presidents, Washington and Adams, in 1796-97 (the Treaty of Tripoli, elaborated by Washington’s administration, made into law by Adams). As presidents G. Washington and J. Adams put it: "...the government of the United States of America is NOT, IN ANY SENSE, founded on the Christian Religion... ".
The growth of superstition in the USA is directly related to the increasing decay of the USA. To get an inkling of this, readers can consult Paul Krugman’s excellent essay [New York Times, January 19, 2008] on how superstitious thinking prevents to solve the financial crisis [whereas a similar crisis was solved correctly twenty years ago]. Meanwhile more offerings are made to the plutocratic Gods of America.
The Bible is studied carefully all over the USA, but history, very little. Why should history be studied? To find out that the world was not created the way the Bible say? That would be too complicated, and unpatriotic beside: the nation is "under God" [an oath in public school], in whom it "trusts" [the motto of the USA and the currency since 1956]. So why to change? Is not God’s creation already perfect? Yes we can what? Is not God all in charge? Why to take any responsibility for anything? Is not God in charge? Why to learn anything really new? Why trying to form new thoughts? Is not every thing worth knowing in the Bible already? US citizens do not have to ask, they know.
The metaphysical connects to the psychological, and the psychological to the industrial. It is difficult to love progress, while loving the Bible, and ignoring history. In recent years, the rallying cry of those who supported Bush’s policies was against "progressives".
Without progress, one will stay in the can. Yes, we can, because we are inside the can. The can, in the USA, is the Bible. The Bible is not just in all hotel rooms, it boxes in all too many American minds, and all too much. American thinking is canned, by the Bible [team sports watched on TV do the rest]. And if one is canned, one can’t get no satisfaction.
So, next time, let’s get some real progress, and please find a copy of the Constitution, to take an oath on. It should be less difficult.
Patrice Ayme
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Tags: Bible, Constitution, Separation Church and State
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