The Potomac Playhouse, our legislative and executive
branches of government in our nation’s capital, Dodge City, have in recent
weeks had a lot of rest as the red-headed stepchild, the judicial branch, made
a lot of news, most of it involving setting your watches and calendars back to
the early 1950’s.
But, because things are going so well-everyone who is
seeking a job is not only finding it but earning a living wage working it;
various state governments are finalizing the details for a massive return of tax money to those of us whose pockets they’ve picked because they just don’t
need all the dollars they took; and those migrant children overflowing our
borders are, as turns out, actually on their way to Universal City and the
Magic Kingdom-it has allowed our representatives to get involved in areas of
the human experience in which they have even less expertise than the workaday
finance and international relations of which they have been making a hash for
decades.
I’ve been told in the confines of social intercourse to avoid politics and religion (and use of the word intercourse, but that's for another time) so imagine my confusion when an elected representative, Louie Gohmert,
who is a professional politician, decides to put his Texas-sized oar in the
water on religion, taking a page from
the Gospel of Billy Preston to demonstrate his mad math skills.
Half a world away, we have zealots of every stripe
blowing one another (and totally disinterested bystanders) back to their atomic
and molecular components perhaps in support of his position which, I fear, may
not thrill God quite as much as some of us think it does. Call me old fashioned
because I am, but I think I liked us a lot more as a species when we behaved
like our belief in a Higher Power was something to be kept between us and the
Divinity.
Speaking perhaps only for myself, fellow-traveler on the
Big Blue Marble, the last thing I think we want to do, if God is in Heaven and
all’s right with the world, is provoke Him into giving us His undivided
attention. Historically we don’t seem to do real well when
that happens.
-bill kenny
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