Vote And Be Damned...Maureen Dowd

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/opinion/17dowd.html?oref=login&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fMaureen%20Dowd

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Vote and Be Damned
By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: October 17, 2004


First Dick Cheney said that supporting John Kerry could lead to another terrorist attack.

Then Dennis Hastert said Al Qaeda would be more successful under a Kerry presidency than under President Bush.

Now the Catholic bishops have upped the ante, indicating that voting for a candidate with Mr. Kerry's policies could lead to eternal damnation.

Conservative bishops and conservative Republicans are working hard to spread the gospel that anyone who supports the Catholic candidate and onetime Boston altar boy who carries a rosary and a Bible with him on the trail is aligned with the forces of evil.

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1. Gee, Rethugs are Anti-Catholic and Anti-Jewish!?!

Gee, what a suprise! "NOT!"

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2. thanks. emailed ms. dowd. n/t

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3. Good Ending!

America is awash in selective piety, situational moralists and cherry-picking absolutists.

She nails it right on the head.

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4. I am beginning to think organized religion

is/has been nothing more than a mechanism for keeping the masses from becoming an uncontrollable mob. I find myself less and less inclined to listen to these bishops who try to scare me into voting against my better judgement.

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5. Marx didn't call it the "opium of the people" for nothing...

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the _illusory_ happiness of the people is the demand for their _real_ happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

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It is, therefore, the task of history, once the other-world of truth has vanished, to establish the truth of this world. It is the immediate task of philosophy, which is in the service of history, to unmask self-estrangement in its unholy forms once the holy form of human self-estrangement has been unmasked. Thus, the criticism of Heaven turns into the criticism of Earth, the criticism of religion into the criticism of law, and the criticism of theology into the criticism of politics.

http://www3.baylor.edu/~Scott_Moore/texts/Marx_Contr_Crit.html

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6. So you've chosen the red pill. You have chosen wisely.