Leaving Religion

Politics… religion… politics… religion.

After my last post, I thought about politics and religion.  I thought about how America was founded by a group of men who were leaving their country because religion had become so tangled with their government that they couldn’t take it anymore.  That they risked their life just to get here, and risked it again while fighting to stay separated.  Then, they wrote a document.  A document, that to this day, still stands up.  Has staying power that even they may not have believed was possible.  They argued, they ‘red-lined’, they analyzed every single word.  If you go to the Library of Congress, you can see the real deal and judge for yourself how committed these men were to creating a government that stood for freedom.

When you see for yourself what has been written… what has been fought over… what this country is founded on… I don’t think one can just sit back and ‘let it happen’ to them.  Go walk the halls of the Capitol, go walk the streets of Boston, check out all of the places where major battles took place.  Then, you tell me that you don’t care what happens.  That you won’t question your leaders (a right we all have in America… a right we are EXPECTED to exercise as written in our constitution) when they do something you vehemently disagree with.

Just because I voted someone into office, does NOT mean that I will always agree with their decisions.  Does not mean that I will not question their intentions.  Does not mean I will rest on my laurels and let them do whatever the hell they want.  In fact, if I voted someone into office, I almost feel more pressure to speak up when they are not meeting expectations.

So yes… when I see President Obama, who I voted into office, upholding something that I thought was not good under Bush, I’m not going too all of the sudden change my mind on that fact just because it is Obama.  I am not going to just trust that he’ll do the right thing.  I’m not going to put all of the power in his hands and then just walk away.  Never. ever.  He is my President, and I am the people, and I have my say.  Just because I voted for him once, does NOT mean I will vote for him again.  Just because others think he is the second coming… does not mean he is always right.  Just because the masses nod their head to every word he speaks does not mean what he speaks is truth.  Just because I agree with a lot of what he says does not mean I agree with ALL of it.

I question all of my politicians.  Republican, Democrat, Green, Libertarian, etc.  It is what is expected of me, it is the right I have, it is what those men fought and died for.  My freedom to voice my opinion.  I may not be religious anymore… but you can be damn sure that I will never stop caring about my country or my government or most of all, my freedoms.  In fact, I care even more now that I DON’T believe.  These freedoms are what allow me to think, believe/not believe what I want… openly, publicly and without government retribution.

Tags: constitution, Forefathers, politics, religion