Via Brother Kenya - his friend (and now mine, too. Ain’t the Internet great?) Ramblin’ Jack Allen is blogging his folk songs. I hope he posts some MP3’s soon.
Today’s offering at Folkwise goes with my earlier post on the whole abortion… um, abortion. Sing it loud!
In Buddhist teachings on learns that we only have the present moment. this eternal dot in time, as it were, is always with us. The future is but a dream, the past is gone. All there is, is now. In light of this thought, it seems that now is the correct time to widen the ideological devide in this country by pressing on with fudamentalist views on one of our nations hottest topics: abortion. Indeed, now is all we have.
Now, South Dakota throws the gauntlet down and attempts to wrest state control of women’s wombs from the women themselves. Now, we get to test the mettle of the right-leaning supreme court as politics get up close and personal.
The whole abortion debate reminds me of a quote from Galileo. My best recollection goes like this:
I find it hard to believe the same God that bestowed intelligence and reason upon us intends us to forego their use.
These type of arguments with fundamentalism have been around for a while, it seems. So, now we get to see how the Bush legacy will change America. It’s too late to recant our disinterest in politics, politics is coming into our homes - like it or not. The hand is dealt, the dice are tossed, now we see exactly what mess we’re in.
I, for one, fear for my daughter’s rights as a modern woman in trying times. We humans have been expanding without control, gobbling up resources, turning air and water into waste products. We have the foresight, courage and intelligence to change that trend. We have the technology. But we’re caught in a medieval mindset of outmoded beliefs that undermine our capacity to control ourselved on a global level. Why hasn’t any believer in God stood up to say: “God has given us the tools to solve modern problems, so we can reach our potential; if God didn’t want us to use the science we invent, he would have made us no more than animals.” Perhaps God wants us to limit our population to coincide with dwindling resources. Perhaps God wants us to manage our planet better.
Now, I think, is the time for someone to take up that call.