[Buddha-l] Check out The Right's Stupidity Spreads

[sjziobro at cs.com]

Richard,
 

 Apparently I did miss your intended irony.  Clearly I do not agree with your subsequent remarks, if only because there is absolutely no guarantee that a State is enlightened and benevolent.  The Communist, Fascist, and other tyrannical States of the last century into the present illustrate this point.

Regards,

Stan

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu>
To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 2:46 pm
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Check out The Right's Stupidity Spreads


On Feb 12, 2012, at 10:25 AM, sjziobro at cs.com wrote:

> This is a huge intrusion of the State upon the constitutionally guaranteed 
free exercise of religion.

To tell the truth, Stan, I'm actually completely in favor of the state intruding 
on organized religion. (I have to tell the truth, because you apparently missed 
my irony.) 

People should be allowed to worship as they please at home and in whatever they 
want to call their assembly halls, but schools, hospitals, clinics, prisons and 
other public welfare institutions should be 100% in the control of the state and 
wrested out of the hands of both religious and commercial enterprises. Health, 
education and welfare are far too important to be left in the hands of 
ideologues and profit-takers. 

The cult of the false goddess Liberty in the United States is probably the 
single greatest threat to the survival of the country. Why should people be free 
to be greedy and stupid and armed? It makes no sense at all. One of the worst 
mistakes made in the history of the US (aside from the failure to ban slavery 
immediately) was the decision to allow religious schools, private schools and 
home schooling. It has pretty much guaranteed an ideologically divided society 
with hardly any sense of common purpose, and with no sense of shared history.

Hell's bells, any Buddhist could have told you America was on the wrong course 
the minute a bunch of ruffians dumped tea in the Boston harbor. No country that 
wastes tea can end up well. Just ask Eisai.

Richard Hayes
(Educator dedicated to indoctrinating our nation's youth until they see the 
folly of organized religion and of voting for morons like Rick Santorum, and 
Mormons like Mitt Romney)



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