A THOUGHTFUL RANT
“The use of faith-based is just one more way the Bush administration found to bypass the Constitution. They knew Americans would never approve of government-promoted religious initiatives, but faith-based? Hey, what’s the problem?”
The term faith-based is nothing more than an attempt to slip religion past you when you’re not thinking; which is the way religion is always slipped past you.”
George Carlin. When will Jesus bring the Pork Chops? 2004
COMMENT
Upon the death of Eudora Welty, George Carlin became the funniest living writer in America. Here we can admire a manifest ability to display unselfconsciously the courage of one’s convictions. The provocative Mr. Carlin’s antipathy toward organized religion reveals his clear awareness that society’s elites will use whatever institutions happen to be handy in order to manipulate the masses. And what handier institution than systematized, ritualized, and concretized theism?
CS
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