Why the religious right seem so fanatical about their politics
The Democrat establishment in America has been fairly successful in recent years at convincing non-religious Americans that in order to be accepted as a true Republican, you must be a religious fanatic. This is simply untrue. It is complete and total bullshit. Would a religious man use the word bullshit so freely? I think not.
The fact of the matter is that the more religious members of the party are afraid that they are going to lose the very culture in which they were born and raised. It is evident to everyone, including you if you think about it, that over time America is becoming a country with less and less morality. It seems like every day you are hearing more and more unthinkable acts occurring across the nation. We have experienced things like Columbine. You hear about children murdering their parents and children murdering their siblings. You hear about internet scams, identity theft and kids dying on college campuses. You hear about corporate scandals. You see rude people everywhere you go. You see kids getting tattoos on their faces and piercing in places that you can guarantee they will regret one day. Nobody can argue the fact that the morality that was common among people of the WWII generation is quickly fading from our society. Just look at how much church attendance has declined over the last few decades.
America is losing its identity. The absurd levels of illegal immigration in this country are fueling the fire. You see Spanish written everywhere you look nowadays. How incredibly ridiculous is that? Growing up, I never even met someone who could speak Spanish. Now they are everywhere. These people are not Americans. They weren’t born here and they didn’t follow the rules of legal immigration. If they aren’t here legally then they need to get the hell out. They most certainly should not get free healthcare nor have the right to vote.
Getting back on point; the religious people in our country want to protect the culture they grew up in. They want to do it for their children’s sake and for that of their grandchildren. Is that so wrong? Shouldn’t you fight for the ability to raise your child in a moral environment? How can you blame them for that?
In all honesty, the vast majority of those very religious people could care less if some people want to engage in a homosexual lifestyle. They just don’t want it exposed to their children. I am not religious. I do not hate gays. Yet, I also do not want to raise children in an environment where their school teacher is going to tell them that it is okay to live like that. In my opinion, it isn’t okay. I choose not to live that way and I would not want my children to choose to. I accept people who live that way but I do not think it is right nor is it moral.
Again, I am not a very religious person. However, I do not want my children growing up with other kids who think it is cool to permanently disfigure themselves by getting a tattoo on their face. I don’t want to see pregnant 12, 13 and 14 year olds. I don’t like to see babies having babies.
Religious and non religious people alike just want to live in a world where people are courteous to one another out of mutual respect not because someone in any level of government says so. We want to preserve the friendly neighborhoods we have called home since we were born. We want to meet a sweetheart, fall in love, get married and raise a family. We want to preserve the community where everyone knows the name of the starting quarterback on the high school football team. We want to preserve the neighborhood where everyone knows the names of at least three of the local boys who are currently fighting overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. We want to live in a town where no one ever forgets to fly the flag on the fourth of July or Memorial Day or Veterans Day. We want to walk into the restaurant after church on Sunday and see everybody that just got out of church. We want to stop for a beer with the boys on Friday night and shoot a little pool while we talk about work. We want to help our neighbor finish building his garage. Afterwards, we want him to invite the whole family over for a barbeque and a cooler full of cold beer. We want to work for our living so we can provide for our families just like our fathers provided for us. We want to give to charity not take from it. We are just moral people, some of whom happen to be religious.
Our parents and grandparents taught us that this is how you live a good life. As we try to emulate them, we come to understand why they wanted to preserve that way of life for us. That way of life should and must be preserved so we can pass it on to our children and they can pass it on to theirs. To us, that way of life is worth dying for.
To us, that is what being American is all about.
Actually, America has a lower crime rate now than it did in the 1970s and 1980s.
And the rate of overall drug addiction has decreased.
Teenaged pregnancy has also decreased since the 1970s and 1980s, as have sexually transmitted diseases.
The World War II generation actually had a higher rate of alcoholism and tobacco use than more recent generations.
In some ways America is worse off though these days, there is more obesity and diabetes related to obesity.
And yes, immigration, especially illegal immigration, has been excessive in recent years, and this has left more people in America’s inner cities unemployed.