The REAL Root Of All Evil?
by Vince?Daliessio
Faith in government. Joe Sobran explains;
" Both Bush and Ahmadinejad, for all their piety, seem to think they are acting on behalf of the Almighty. Since they have clashing conceptions of the divine will, at least one of them may be mistaken.
But Bush and Ahmadenijad and millions of others share one article of faith: faith in the state. That is, faith in the authority of organized force, and ultimately faith in war.
Indeed, how many modern people can shake this faith? Very few, I?m afraid. Many men who can?t believe in God find it nearly impossible to imagine society without the state ? the threat of force. The more the state demands of us, the more harm it does, the more inconceivable life without it seems to become.
Sometimes I think our coins should bear the legend: ?In Caesar we trust.? "
Many of my liberal friends are either athiest or agnostic when it comes to God, yet are fearful zealots when it comes to the state.
And they think religious people are dumb and backward...
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