WE have very little use in our modern times for formal Theology , whose supreme task is the gaining of political power and the fabrication of rational proofs for the existence of God , and the punishment or rewards of the after life . And despite the accepted ideas nowadays trying to impose that people can come to live with the assumption that faith and reason agree .
Gov. Mitt Romney and his proposed vise president in tomorrow's elections , are both typical representatives of these religious philosophies and doctrines , through their firm belonging to very conservative sects of Christianity , and being surrounded by neocons advisers .
There are today minds who find the proofs for religiosity and the empowering of religions in modern societies entirely convincing , and equally intelligent minds that find them misconceived and inconclusive and totally unconvincing , each side suspects the other of bad faith . But the fact is that the proofs only convince those who want to be convinced , and fail to convince those who do not want to be convinced . And so most arguments are not really proofs at all .
The reader may wonder whether questions that sound as abstract and remote as these have any real flesh-and-blood importance at all . Our whole life revolves around the answers and the decisions that are being given to them . How one answers them determines one's view of one's own life , it's future , the life of nature , the political and economical life of our nation and our globe .
Time will show us the human consequences of the answers and actions to these questions .
Some reflections on the upcoming elections in the United States , and the state of the union . thanks for your time .
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