This note, and possibly others to follow of the same subject, explore the relationship of politics, governance, and laws as they relate to religiously based morals and belief systems. The summary conclusion of this note's exploration is that
- governance and laws based & founded upon religious belief systems are no
Making babies is a fundamental biological function whether humans, or bees, or seedlings from plants... the sole purpose of which is to preserve survival of a species which is subject to a biologically limited life-span... or better stated a limit to living cell life span. This is why rocks don't have a reproduction ...
The poverty threshold in the US is defined by a standard developed and used since 1955, independent of geographical regions.. i.e. applied nationally rather than regionally or by rural, urban, or metropolitan area. The article Mismeasuring Poverty describes the big picture (...
Consider a family with young kids sitting around the dinner table.
Kid: All our friends at school go to church and sunday school. Why don't we?
Father: Because "we" don't believe there's any such thing as a god which is what church and sunday school teaches.
Kid: Then all my friends parents believe there's a god?
...The Arizona bill to further restrict contraceptive insurance coverage (link here) reminded me of the vague and still highly arbitrary dividing line between a religiously based moral condition and any other moral belief foundation. One you invoke any morally based standard for anything you tred on thin ice. Religious ...
"I think we need to have a government that respects our religions," Gingrich said, appearing visibly agitated. "I'm a little bit tired of being lectured on respecting every other religion on the planet. I want them to respect our religion." (...