I am a ‘news junkie’.
A long time ago I realized, that taking your news from one
source (however trustworthy it is) leads to loosing perspective. What’s more: if, for any reason your source of information gets
manipulated by the government, or other groups of interest, you get ‘skewed’
information, or information missing some, important parts.
That is why I watch, or listen to (beside our, available in
America, networks), original AlJazeera English (which is often skewed as well,
but in different direction), or Italian RAINews24 - directly from Milano.
I saw recently the ceremony of swearing in of the new
President of the Republic - Sergio Mattarella.
And, at that moment I had an epiphany… I will explain in a
moment what caused it.
Most of ‘thinking’ Americans consider the USA the secular
country. Apparently our
forefathers thought about the newly formed USA as a secular country. Otherwise we wouldn’t have the FIRST
AMENDMENT in our US Constitution.
This Amendment guarantees the separation of the State and Church. This is what constitutes the secular,
modern country, as opposed to the countries, which are run along the religious
law, however you call it. It’s not
only Islamic ‘SHARIA’ which we should be afraid of - any religion imposed on
the policy of any country makes it ’non-modern’ (let’s say it: BACKWARD)
country…
You would think that Italians are, as a nation, deeply
religious people. You wouldn’t
think it about Americans… Yes, the
whole South is deeply religious, but that’s it… Our Nation is not religious… Or
is it?
So, I watched the ceremony of swearing in of the new (XII-th
in the short history of the modern Italian Republic) President of the Republic
- Sergio Mattarella.
I was expecting some convoluted and referring to the
glorious history and the God, line.
And what I heard? Here we
go: « Giuro di essere fedele alla Repubblica e di osservarne lealmente la
Costituzione » what translates in simple:
‘I swear to be faithful to the Republic and to uphold
loyally the Constitution’.
At the same time every politician in the secular US of A
swears on the Bible, finishing his or hers oath uttering: ‘…so help mi God’.
Helloooooooooooo!
Maybe it’s time to revise these oaths. Maybe it’s time to enter the Modern
World, a world where the European Countries already found themselves…
Instead, we allow the people like Sarah Palin, Michele
Bachmann, Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, and others, to express the total disregard
to the Constitution of the USA and run their campaigns on the fundamentally
religious agenda.
It’s unbelievable, when a US Senator (Rand Paul) says
openly, that:
‘the United States are in the religious war with Islam’.
What ???!!! … we are in war with the ‘religious extremists’
(whose religion is, in their minds, Islam), but we do not fight religious wars
(at least now - the last Crusade ended in 1444 what led to fall of
Constantinople in 1453). No matter
what side the religious extremists are on - all of them pull their countries
back into the Middle Ages.
America, you should know better…
