Posted by
Republiservative on Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:18:14 PM
Some USA officials today express that government should intermeddle with religion and religious beliefs to ensure all's PC with the nation and its relation to the world.
Already in the past few decades, most Western religion seems reduced for the most part to psychology rather than theology, with so-called "New Age" alternatives competing with established religions in guise in the nature of Spinozisitic Humanism...i.e., as expressed through the likes of "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield, a psychologist. Such New Age proliferations of philosophy remove any nature of Divinity whatsoever from nature, and place the individual at the center of each one's universe...while further imputing that God in some way resides in each person, or that each person is a Spiritual influence upon the whole universe, which can only be used to a person's benefit by constant guidance of psychologists...and that aware of this or not, it is a standard to be applied to every person on earth.
It is not my purpose herein to debate such reasoning. But if anyone theoretically were to be interested in regulating all religious beliefs, literally it could extend to every single person in a realm as a "deity of one" expressing its Spiritual influences through absolutely anything at all one says or not, does or not as its own unique theology...subject to whatever corrections individually or in admixtures a regulator declares necessary.
Wherefore, apart from the USA Constitutional issue re establishment through any method(s) a preference or singularity of religious expression peaceably pursued, I respectfully submit such within new concern re regulation of religion.