Monday, October 24, 2005
Overlap
It would seem easier to point our fingers at the figures in the past, than to sit and think about the present situations.
Let’s say, there is a country by the name of A, that sits somewhere on the map of the world, and this country is ruled by a leader of religious principle and ideology. Country A’s system of government is comparable to the theme of political religion; a play on the faith of previous religious states married to the more rationalist idealism of the modern world.
It’s possible that Country A was finally able to concede to the fact that religious morality and humanity was just not enough to combat Satan and his leagues of demon. This system of rationalist ministries and politicians shrouded by the superstitions of faith sprouted from a movement infamously remembered as Revolution. Most survivors of this uprooting of social and economic life, Revolution, are characterized by their works in later years; Essays and novels written by exiles of Country A are often marked by their “sensual abandonment, urgency, and split-personalities”
This contemporary state of religion seems to carry the genetic makeup of the more ancient states of
Country A, in general, has the distinct quality of dream and sleep rather than the reality that should have been. Tracing through to years before the Revolution, one can mark the rising of secularism and the apparent attempts at murdering religion in Country A; this plan failed, miserably, and the result was the nightmare that Revolution became. Peasant faith is often stronger than Political power and such was the case for Country A.
This change in the political weather of Country A brought along winds of traditional moral utopia. From the cries of laymen came the reactionary, the totalitarian, and the religious politician. Because there was room for only one of them they knew they needed recruits. These recruits would later become followers, worshippers. Country A was splitting on all sides, that is, until the religious politician reached far into the depths of his faith filled past and found an answer that the moral insanity of the others could not find; a savior.
Obviously, this savior need not be crucified and then rise on the third day, rather, something state-of-the-art, new. Something along the lines of millions; one million saviors led by the shroud of a simple Saint. Country A warred, succesfully, against another imaginary country and was able to imprint nearly two million lives into the prayers of its citizens (or rather, recruits). I won't point out that those who ran Country A's pious system were either mad, bad or both. In its superficial world, having both could be considered a godly achievement.
There's a saying that blaming is a game played by "God and children only", and it's true. Country A has only to look and see that its concepts of unself-conscious law and order become a veil to cover the true plotted imaginings that follow the wake of its corrupt system. The line that separates the operatives of religion and secualrism in Country A is nearly invisible, but where it overlaps it is darkest.
