I am one of the rapidly growing number of people who would check the “no religion” box on the survey cited by Pat Buchanan in his recent PDN column, “The crackup of Christianity.”
My reason for checking that box?
I believe in an omniscient, all-powerful, but forgiving God who created and loves all people and is worshiped in various ways not in the American “religion” of white supremacy.
I have an answer to his question, “How does a nation so divided ever come together again?”
Pat’s concern: “Already, among a good slice of [de-Christianized] America, especially the young, the West is guilty of centuries of racism, imperialism, colonialism, slavery, sexism, ethnic cleansing, religious persecution and cultural genocide against indigenous peoples.”
Sadly, from his point of view, he doesn’t see all of those issues as the main problem.
He sees the fact that they are being protested, Mayor Pete’s [Buttigieg] personal lifestyle choice, women’s “reproductive rights remaining sacrosanct,” and “unborn infants, 60 million of whom have been killed in the womb since Roe v. Wade in 1973, still have no rights at all, not even the right to life” as the issues.
I see the protests favorably as those issues concern me as well as the urgent issues that we all need to unite to address first: the uncountable numbers of people being killed in wars, the extinction of life on planet Earth that is fast approaching and the hatred of “other” that is tearing the fabric of our democracy to shreds.
Joy Beaver,
Sequim