As an agnostic and true child of the enlightenment,
I have a little trouble with recent events as you might expect.
The Terry Schaivo case has highlighted the idea that many people in the US still hold on to magical thinking and the mystical world view..... And to a great extent this is encouraged by leaders like Bush and The Pope.
Now this is not to say that agnostics don't understand the magical thinking of the religious...far from it. But what most agnostics and enlightened people miss is that those who truly hold on to mystical thinking really do believe it!
How easy it must be to believe in Magic and Mysticism.....! I really wish I could at times. But if you start down the road of magical thinking where does it lead? To a world of good and evil. To Gods and Monsters. Why not believe in other Gods? Zeus. Isis. The Knights Templar. Magic charms and incantations. etc.
As the Terry Schiavo carnival comes to it's end.....I have to wonder: How many more news carnivals are we going to have under Bush and the Religious Right? They seem intent on making Dubya's second term wall to wall mystical thinking. Anything to divert attention from the real and serious issues at hand.......
What price will the American public pay for their odd notions and magical thinking? And how strange it is that religious and secular thinkers are out there totally cut off from each others private worlds......as this new century begins.
