A rant on American Judeo-Christian extremism

After watching last night's episode of LOST (whew... intense!) I thought this would be funny to share. Press The Buttons seems like a fun site, I'd encourage you to check it out if you have some time to kill. And you obviously do, because you're reading my useless drivel! ;)

If you're less into video games and more interested in scary political realities, then maybe you could waste some time at the Texas Freedom Network instead. Texas terrifies me. They are seriously re-writing history under the guise of correcting a liberal bias, and their public school textbooks will now be ingraining generations of young Americans with highly slanted, politically conservative views on history. I don't identify myself as "right" or "left," "Democrat" or "Republican", and I personally hate hate hate the two-party system and how it polarizes Americans. It seems like a castration of the brains.

Every time I see "straight party vote" options, I rage. There is such a huge range of issues that everyone seems to ignore.

There is so much demonization of the "other side", whichever side you're on. People that disagree with you about what's best for our country are obviously trying to attack you and your way of life. It is so ridiculously divisive, and splits people fairly evenly into two equally stupid camps of fanatical extremism.

I wish I could believe that a wealthy elite enclave that rules from the shadows created this system to make people easier to rule over... but sadly, I'm convinced that it is truly just an ignorance developed by ourselves, with no grand Sith Lord's manipulations that brought about such a state of affairs.

In any case, let me say that I hate extremism on both ends of the spectrum, but the recent Texas decision regarding their public school text books seems like something Orwellian. There is no real "debate" about America being founded on secular principles, most especially the separation of Church and State, by Deists. They weren't Christians, and they didn't want America to be a Christian nation. There's no debate.

Anyone that says otherwise is perverting historical fact in order to push a religious agenda. Doing so seriously threatens the very freedom that America espouses as sacred. Yet they can't see their hypocrisy, nor envision why it would possibly be a bad thing to force Christian mantra as a State institution. Sheria Law is a lot harsher, but at the same time it seems to me like a slippery slope.

I might just go back to Japan if this type of religious extremism continues to spread.