Area Atheist on Same Page with Spiritual Leaders on Child Separation
on rare common ground
Neighborhood non-believer Joe Váradi found himself in complete and unequivocal agreement with prominent spiritual leaders that the forced removal of children from their parents, guardians or older siblings with whom they had just crossed the Southern border of the United States is not cool.
The local skeptic in all things holy, miraculous and ecumenical was on a fully congruent moral plane with such religious dignitaries as Pope Francis in opposing the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of automatically jailing adults who illegally cross the border and sending the kids to government-run warehouses.
The secular materialist-next-door was in lock-step with New York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s interpretation that nowhere does the text of the Bible justify the Nazi-esque taking of babies from the arms of their mothers.
He was seen nodding with approval while reading a statement from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that “immigration-related law must strengthen family bonds and keep all members of a family together.”
In an unprecedented gesture surprising no one more than adherents of their philosophies, prominent atheist thought leaders Christopher Hitchens and Madalyn Murray O’Hair likewise broke protocol and signaled via psychic mediums from beyond the grave their intention to join the chorus of priests, rabbis and imams in outrage at Trump and Sessions, who in their diabolical zeal to divide and conquer, to sow bigotry and discord, to trigger liberal critics for political gain, and to make brown people the scapegoats for declining white America’s grievances, had managed in short order to upend and pervert the Judeo-Christian, nay, human values of charity, solidarity and inclusion.
At press time, white supremacist evangelicals remained virtually the only congregations, religious or otherwise, whose ideological helmsmen had not taken a stance against America’s new child internment camps.
To my CPHS buddy Victor Karamalis — thanks for the inspiration!
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