Nick+H’s+OpEd+Article

American government is one which progresses healthily when cooperation and compromise are utilized. These ideals have pushed the United States through several rough times and down periods, and will continue to if the integrity of the nation shall press on in the future. However, at the rate politicians are finding themselves in polemical disagreement, who is to know what is to become of this country? To be quite frank and sincere, I am sick and tired of selfish, “moral” politicians using holier than thou strategies to condemn the ideas of the opposition as wrong and immoral, unwilling to compromise in any sense of the word. Morality itself is the problem, as strides in American advancement have been restrained by the moral angst of old and should-be withering religions. That is right, I said it; religion is to blame. Time and time again, religion steps its foot in the door and says NO!

NO to stem cell research, curing the most tragic condition in America is not worth losing the already undesirable humans of this nation. NO to a public option in health care, as socialism is the work of Satan himself! NO to gay marriage, as religion dictates that not all peoples are created equally! NO to a non-Christian president, as his radical atheism would tear down the moral “weaving” of the nation! NO to evolution, as thorough and conclusive scientific studies are not strong enough to counter the “almighty” word of God. NO says the arguing religionist, “compromise is impossible, as my book claims my righteousness and your condemnation!”

Strict religious doctrine not only sickens me, and others who are repulsed by the ideas of closed-minded fundamentalism, but also restrains this cutting edge nation from reaching greatness! Imagine a world in which fairy tales did not govern the masses; a world ruled by the rationale of the people, not of God’s word. It would be a place where morality is contrived in the soul of the individual, not the external views of the collective. Inherent morality would remain, no murder, no theft, no corruption or cheating, but petty and arbitrary law of religion would cease to exist. Idealism, the human beneficiary effort, would be the true human doctrine. Peace and equality would govern the peoples’ hearts, not discrimination and stereotype.

Just as the slaves were emancipated over 150 years ago, so too should the oppressed drones of religion take the moral shackles from their minds and leave them, along with their Bibles, in the jump to human perfection. Intellect shall rise to the occasion, and govern the people. Overbearing morality shall become a blight of days past, as stem-cells, gay marriage, diversity, and reason enter the American soul as right and sound.

I urge my readers to digest my words and throw down the malevolent doctrines of your religious creed, and take up the ways of the intellectual. Societal advance is dependent on the release of theological tendencies.