Creeping Socialism
Jason Kuznicki on May 29th 2004
Imagine a world where governments had never once thought to establish an official religion.
Now imagine someone proposing that the United States ought to have one, and that our country should be a Christian nation.
Republicans would probably call it “socialized religion,” and they’d fight against it as hard as they could. They would condemn any effort, no matter how minor, to insinuate religion into government. They’d point out that government ruins whatever it touches, and that religion, like medicine, ought to be left to individuals.
They would denounce it as “creeping socialism” whenever the Ten Commandments appeared in a courtroom, whenever prayers were said in public schools, and whenever Biblical creationism was foisted onto students as an alternative to scientific biology.
And these hypothetical Republicans–They’d be entirely right. Tradition should be no excuse for creeping socialism.
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