2008 Woodie Awards
Religion used as an excuse to deflect blame
By Mike Goodwin
Rocket Staff Writer
Issue date: 11/11/05 Section: Opinion
Deflection is the expression of the week.
And so it will be two weeks from now when I'm deflecting criticism. Much like the media is out for financial gain on delivering a sort of "creative truth" to you (refer to last week's less offensive column), organized religion is built on much of the same ideal. It's another power structure, but a more subtle one due to the overall declining influence of faith-based rules. This neoconservative movement and attempt at a return to the gilded age of the '50s is laughable. It's not about abortion or the way we dress. It's not about inappropriate language or sexual representations or preferences. This is a subtle form of monetary and authoritative control.
Support our troops by buying American-made cars with low gas mileage only, sending touchy feely priests to Alaska, and keeping government corruption on the down low. Deflect, deflect, deflect. Repel and redirect any sign of problematic problems to another, real or imaginary. Use another issue or your God as a scapegoat from confronting reality. But give credit where credit is un-due to willingly submit yourself as a hobby. The followers have followed and found fellowship under false pretenses and exaggerations. God magically cures the ailing and hypnotizes the vulnerable. Science and their silly advancements. If only they could find a vaccine for something useful, like stopping abortion and evolution lessons altogether.
I take pride as the false king of heathens. This is my conservative label to the close minded. A fear of change and an anti-open mind means a struggle to remove the baby bottle of organization from the gap-toothed mouth of the suckling. I am not afraid to realize my own problems and come to terms with the tangible while progressing in a positive societal direction. I have my own spiritual aura and it falters because this is consistent with life. I do not find the solutions to all of my problems come in the form of divine intervention.
And so it will be two weeks from now when I'm deflecting criticism. Much like the media is out for financial gain on delivering a sort of "creative truth" to you (refer to last week's less offensive column), organized religion is built on much of the same ideal. It's another power structure, but a more subtle one due to the overall declining influence of faith-based rules. This neoconservative movement and attempt at a return to the gilded age of the '50s is laughable. It's not about abortion or the way we dress. It's not about inappropriate language or sexual representations or preferences. This is a subtle form of monetary and authoritative control.
Support our troops by buying American-made cars with low gas mileage only, sending touchy feely priests to Alaska, and keeping government corruption on the down low. Deflect, deflect, deflect. Repel and redirect any sign of problematic problems to another, real or imaginary. Use another issue or your God as a scapegoat from confronting reality. But give credit where credit is un-due to willingly submit yourself as a hobby. The followers have followed and found fellowship under false pretenses and exaggerations. God magically cures the ailing and hypnotizes the vulnerable. Science and their silly advancements. If only they could find a vaccine for something useful, like stopping abortion and evolution lessons altogether.
I take pride as the false king of heathens. This is my conservative label to the close minded. A fear of change and an anti-open mind means a struggle to remove the baby bottle of organization from the gap-toothed mouth of the suckling. I am not afraid to realize my own problems and come to terms with the tangible while progressing in a positive societal direction. I have my own spiritual aura and it falters because this is consistent with life. I do not find the solutions to all of my problems come in the form of divine intervention.
