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The Huffington Post has a classic tirade by Deepak Chopra about President Bush, religion and politics, and stem cells. It's too bad the HP posted this since it basically consists of a temper tantrum blaming everything on 'stupid Bush and his closed minded religious ideology.'
Chopra, "a spiritual speaker who fuses Western science with Eastern wisdom," is claiming to point out the
"bad science" of the Bush Administration's rejection of public monies to fund the destruction of embryos for experiments. It's dumbfounding that someone who has made a living from the intersection of the spiritual and scientific can so summarily reject that with which he does not agree. Furthermore, it's equally bewildering that he seems so ignorant about the distinctions of religion, ethics, and public policy.
There is plenty with which to be dissatisfied by the Religious Right but Chopra blames the coming end of our beloved Republic on his mis-understanding of American politics and the role of faith in shaping our society and government. That serves little but does mark Chopra as a hack for the 'anti-Bush, anti-conservative Left.'
One thing that is constructive from this display of anger is the clear perception that those on the anti-religious Left hold Christianity and those who integrate their faith as undeserving of their place in the polity. It is incumbent upon those of us, therefore, who believe that our faith cannot help but affect our ethics and politics to prove them wrong.
