Quick Thoughts: Religious Diversity

Source: Villanova University

I've had a hard time picking a picture for this post, because most of the options available with Google Images (my source of choice), because most of the images the search of "religious diversity" brings up do not include the pentacle many pagans use as their symbol (I know I do, even when I'm not Wiccan).

Recently a group of our Representatives at Congress, have been pushing for a law to erradicate the official religion of our country. Our country is officially Catholic. Why is this important? Well, you can believe whatever you want, but the State supports economically only the Catholic Church.

Some of our representatives want to push that out entirely, eliminate the State's sponsoring of the Church and rip religion out of the State's affairs. These are the representatives that push for a Laic State. A good idea, if you ask me. One of our representatives - if I am not mistaken - said something to the effect, that religion and religious believes are a personal matter, while the Government is a public matter. Those against claim that God needs to be IN the Government in order to ensure good customs and moral values are upheld.

Um... well, currently we have an official religion, and over a quarter of our representatives belong to a party openly evangelical. Still, we have high rates of violence against women, our LGBTQAI+ community members have been harrassed and jumped when the zeal of evangelical religiousness hit a peak during the last elections, we have drug issues, raining unemployment, rampant corruption... So, which good customs and moral values would that be?

Another faction of the representatives want don't want exactly the Laic State, but want to get rid of the official religion and estate a multi-confessional State, where every religion gets money from the State. Not like there is any money for it, as the recent tax plans and tax disasters prove, and nor like it will be more in the future, as the Public Employment Law and the coming projects seem to vaticinate. But furthermore, this is a project by an interested party, a representative of an evangelical party.

I'm amazed they have not been dissolved, as in the last elections they broke the law by using the Church and the preachers to push their political message. This is forbidden by our Constitution. They say things like "They serve the Law of God, which is above the Law of Men", which... why do they even are at the heart of the Law of Men? Why? They want to secure more money, it seems. Through the Law of Men. The thing is that, in their shortsightedness, they forget that "religions" do not mean only the different factions within the christian religion. They forget that those religions they work so hard to discredit, to demonize are also religions. Their project would reach them too. Or will they make a rule to keep the pagans out?

It's so maddening when the people who go are the first to try and eliminate competing religions and systems of belief, are also the first to decry injustice and demand religious tolerance... for them.

Source: The Dragon Keep