The Soledad Cross!

[HARDCORE]

The separation of church and state was means to prevent a re occurrence of a world in which the power of the church overruled the function of the state.

Back during the Spanish Inquisition, the zeal of some whom professed to be saintly and all knowing, greatly overstepped it?s bounds. People were persecuted and even burned at the stake in the name of religious piety!

The same religious travesties overtook most of Europe back during the Dark Ages and even the Knights Templar themselves, were hunted down and executed (I believe?) on papal order!

Even here in the New World (America), the Spanish and the English alike, brought their superstition to an apex, and many an innocent was eliminated for witchcraft or heresy. It has, and still is (especially within the Middle East) in fashion to murder people whose religious views go contrary to the accepted norm!

Well, here in San Diego County (Mt. Helix and Mt Soledad to be exact), the crosses that top these hills are also under attack. An intolerant minority is demanding that these monuments be removed, and this is especially true of the cross that overlooks the affluent bastion of La Jolla, California!

I believe that the Separation of Church and State is essential in many cases. However, this trend of removal of the Ten Commandments and other moral icons that go part and parcel to respect of law from all public places, has the potential to pull off the reverse of the Spanish inquisition, in my opinion? Instead of lack of compliance to religious mandates leading to one losing his head, adherence to a moral code of any kind may soon find you at odds with the Powers That Be!

The day may again come when religious persecution comes into play, and the dunking stool, the stocks, and even burning at the stake are incorporated again into the law books!

Are we, as it was in Nazi Germany of the late 1930s, again regressing into a society where the demands of a powerful few or even an ever bitching minority, dictate the actions, beliefs and even thinking of the majority?

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