Secular

I recently heard a statement in a post election discussion from one of the liberal elites who raised my hackles and prompts this rebuttal.
The speaker was Carl Bernstein, once of the Washington Post and a principal in the “Deep Throat” bit that helped bring down President Richard Nixon. Quoth Bernstein, among other hogwash: “This is a secular nation.” He was referring, of course, to the United States of America.
Secularism is the disbelief of any higher power in human relations whether it be God, Allah, Buddha, Manitou (of the American Indians) or even the gods of the Greeks and Romans. Humans for eons have relied on a spirituality to provide faith and hope and a blueprint for communal living.
Mr. Bernstein, sir, you may have been referring to our government for which the founding fathers invoked a separation of church and state in the constitution. However those great men, as spiritualists, were even more significantly relying on their God for success in a magnificent experiment.
Nation and government are not synonymous, the latter being only one component of the former. Factor in the people, the history, the traditions, the culture, even the morals and values espoused and you’ll find a nation, Mr. Bernstein. My country, most certainly, is not secular.
Interesting that a concensus that the “November Surprise” for the Democrats was triggered because the populous was influenced primarily by morals and values.
So there, Mr. Bernstein!

Blame

My, oh my! I would say that the Kerry crowd is getting the cart before the horse in their latest blame Bush tirade. The unsubstantiated allegations that the Bush himself lost all those high explosives to the Iraqui militants is pretty stern stuff so near the election eve.
Of course this is just the latest example of Kerry's wontan tactics.
Wonder how he passed up the opportunity to blame the president for the flood that launched Noah's Ark.

Haunting Problem

Secularist are those worldly folk who do not believe in spirituality. They discount any notion of a deity, of a higher power, of a superior being that provides a guide for conduct that has overseen the functioning of human civilizations virtually from the beginning, whether it was creation, evolution or the Big Bang
which created an ecosystem favorable to human existence.

They reject the possibility and necessity of such a force whether it be God of the Christians and Jews, or Allah of Islam, Bramha of the Hindus, Buddha of Buddhism, the great spirit Manitou of the American Indians and even the mythical gods of the Greeks and Romans from antiquity.

Virtually all of humanity from time beyond time has found the necessity for seeking relief from the very human problems that have plagued all humans for eternities. That search produced much needed reasoning for faith, hope and guidelines of conduct for relief from suffering, allowing an orderly progression of man's developement.

And, pray tell me, why would the secularists, a very small minority, abandon the spirituality that has played such a signifiant role in man's destiny? What's to be gained by their ploy of seeing or sensing only what is visible?

May the good Lord bless them with insight and common sense.