l H b LiK fcA I U N M tN I IxJINABl t I he Face of Responsiblilv by M v g t Curtu ” There IS no quantum w orld. Our scene: A super market »here I like to go for the weekly family grocery shopping At the checkstand I venture a polite.'How are you today?* to connect with the human face behind the counter 'O h. ,'m great to d j)!* She smiled back at me with more warmth than the usual perfuruory greeting She was a small woman, maybe in her mid SfXs. with a gentle Uxikmg face She appeared to he someone who had worked K hours a day. 5 days a week for many years She espertly pulled the items out o f my cart, flipprd them evenly through the price sensor The young man at her side busily bagged the groceries and smiled also, 'Yeah. 1 love Wednesdays ' the 2 co workers gave cash ' J e n lifv and o > o r j U>, it ,r ■ r . j i u p .n i »1 ihe ciatr T hese'crim inals* included k » < h m J rhers. 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I h t K, n , t ) f t v '4 ' COPIES & FAX c o p ie s • fly e rs • re s u m es le tte rh e a d • business card s u p s «24 h r. fa x s e rv ic e b ro c h u re s • d e s ig n • a d s 1255 s heinlosk 436 2000 MONOTHEISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS GORE VIDAL r«M -TxLqAT(C«r ‘ * r|X h e word "ra d ic a l" derive» from ihe 1 a t in word for root I Therefore, i f you want to get to the root of anything you must he radical It it no accident that the word hat now been totally demonized by our master», and no one in politic» dare» even to use the word favorably, much lev» track any problem Io its root But then a ruling class that was able to demonize the word “ liberal" in the pas, ten year» it a mavict at control ling indeed stifling any cntKism o f itself. " I iberal” come» from the I a,in Itherulis, which means pertaining to a free man In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democrat-» through change and reform One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon rpw io the r iK 'io f the mailer I hr great unmentionable evil at the center o f our culture is monotheism Erom a barbaric Bronze Agetexi known a» the Old Iextament, three antihuman religion» have evolved—Judaism, Christianity and Islam These are sky god religions They are. literally, p a tri­ archal— < rod is the omnipotent father hence the loathing of women for 2,000 yean in those countries afflicted by ihe sky god and hi» earthly male delegate» The sky god is a jealous god. o f course He requires total obedience from everyone on earth, a» he is in place not jus, for one tribe but for all erratum Those who would reject him m utt be converted or killed for their own good. Ultim ately, totalitarianism it the only sort o f politics that car, truly serve the sky god’ s purpose Any move ment o f a liberal nature endangers his authority and that o f h,s delegates on earth One God. one king, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father leader in the family at home I he founders o f the United States were no, enthusiasts o f the sky god Many, like Jefferson, rejected him altogether and placed man at the center o f the world The young I incoln wrote a pamphlet against Christianity, which friends per vuaded him to burn Needless to cay, word go, around about both Jefferson and I incoln and each had to cover his tracks Jefferson said that he was a das,, w hich could mean anything or nothing, while I incoln. hand on heart and tongue in cheek, said he could no, support for office anyone who "sco ffe d " at religion f rom the beginning, sky godders have always exerted great presvure in our vccular republic Alvo, evangelical (h rts tian groups have traditionally drawn strength from the sup­ pressed A frican slaves were allowed to organize heavenly sky god churches, as a surrogate for earthly freedom W hite chutches were organized in order to make certain that the rights o f property were respected and that the numerous rebgious taboos in the New and Old Testaments would he enforced, if necessary, by civil law. The ideal to which John Adams subscribed that we would be a nation o f laws, not o f men was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable tabtxis on sex, alcohol, gambling We are now indeed a nation o f laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuntan Roman ( atholic migrations in the last century further re­ enforced the Puritan sky-god The Church has also put itself on a collision course w ith the B ill o f Rights when it asserts, as it always has, that "error has no rights." The last corre­ spondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson ex­ pressed their alarm that the Jesuits were to be allowed into the United States Although the Jews were sky god folk, they followed Book One. not Book TWo, so they have no mission to convert others; rather the reverse Also, a» they have been systematically demonized by the Christian sky godders. they tended to be liberal and so turned not to their temple bu, to the A C .I U. Unfortunately, the recent discosery tha, the sky- god. in his capacity as realtor, had given them, in perpetuity, some parcels o f unattractive land called Judea and Samaria has, to my mind, unhinged many o f them I hope this is temporary. In the I trst Amendment to the C onstitution the f ounders made it clear that this was not to be a sky god nation w ith a national religion like that o f T ngland. from whom we had just separated It is curious how little understood this amend­ ment is— yes. everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not base the right to impose his beliefs on others who do no, happen to share in his superstitions and taboos. I his separation was absolute in our original Republic But the sky godders do not give up easily In the 1950s they actually got the phrase " In God We Trust" onto the currency, in direct violation o f the Tirst /Amendment Although many o f the C hris,tan evangelists leel it neves vary to convert everyone on earth to theit prim itive religion, they have been prevented—so la r — from forcing others to worship as they do. bu, they have forced most tyrannically and wickedly—their superstitions and hatreds upon all o f us through the civil law and through general prohibitions So it is upon that account that I now favor an all-out war on the monotheists. lx , us dwell upon the evils they have wrought I he hatred o f blacks comes straight from their Bad Book As descend ants o f Ham, blacks arc forever accursed, while Saint Paul tells the slaves to obey their masters Racism iv in (he marrow o f the bone o f the true believer Eor him , black is forever in ferior to white and deserves whatever ill fortune may come his way. The fact that some monotheists can behave chan,a bly means, often, that their prejudice is at so deep a level that they arc not aware it is there at all In the end. this makes any radical change o f attitude impossible. Meanwhile, welfare has been the price the sky godders were w illing to pas to exclude blacks from their earthly political system So we must live— presumably forever—w ith a highly enervating race war. set in train by the One God and his many hatreds. Patriarchal rage at the thought o f Woman ever usurping M an’ s place at the helm, in either home or workplace, is al most as strong now as it ever was According to the polls at the time o f the hearings, most American women took the side o f Clarence Thomas against Anita H ill But then the sky god's fulm inations against women are still very much par, o f the psyche o f those in thrall to the Jealous God The famous tree o, liberty is all that we have ever really had Now, for wan, o f nurture, it is dying before our eyes O f course, the sky-god never liked it Rut some o f us did and some o f us do So, perhaps, through facing who and what we are, we may achieve a nation no, under God but under m an­ or should I say our com m on humanity? O \ No to the ( ) ( ’A Let us rise to die call, and meet die challenge fnmi dx far right, arxl keep Oregon a state which value» diversity and personal frrcvkxnv W’e need to send a message to die res, of die world that Oregon is NOT a bastion of bigotry . or anoppresive hack» a ter of paranoid nght wing religious fanatics Our nation was founded on die principle of political, social, and religious tolerance for A1X It ha» taken more dun two »entu nes for our society to evolve to dx- point where these tenents have become more than just a lire am for women. Native Americans, Asian Americans. Afro Amen