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Here’s an article from the Washington Post online that caught my attention today. Here is the most frightening and disturbing piece:

As recounted by former speechwriter Bill McGurn, who was at the meeting, Bush told Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun that “the church is the rock — it is the only thing that can withstand the wave of secularization, which says you can kill someone else to make your own life more convenient. He said the Catholic Church must never give in on this.”

This is an obvious attack on secularists with an implicit threat against all non-Christians. Our country’s government was founded on secular principles and any leader holding office should be bound to these same principles. This is criminal.

Religion is not required for morality. Period. We’re born with a conscience or we’re not. Religion makes no difference. If there was any weight to this assertion we’d see hordes of “non-believers” chronically committing a multitude of crimes against society. We don’t see that because the assertion that non-believers are somehow less moral and good than believers doesn’t hold any water. It’s bullshit. There is no proof. I guess if you keep saying something for long enough people will eventually believe it.

This quite possibly the most offensive thing I’ve ever heard Bush say. Maybe there’s a silver lining though; this could be the thing that forces my hand and pushes me into action. All I really want is to be left alone but I don’t think that’s a possibility anymore. I guess it’s now time for me to to stand up to the attacks and defend myself.