War is declared!

Just in case you are someone who has not yet heard, the war has been declared. War? What? A war, declared? Where is this war, I hear you ask? It is all around you, people – all around. All you have to do is open your eyes, and take a look – take a good look. Just to confuse you, it is not one of those ‘offence’ wars, one where one side tries to beat the crap out of the other. It is a very subtle war, one that has been developing for the last few decades. It is a war of ideologies, where my ‘God’ is better than your ‘God;, or better than your ‘no-God’. It is a war that pitches a dark, hidden foe against many main-stream countries – notably what we currently call the West. It is in the press, mainly using Islam as the main antagonist, but it is more widespread, and far more ‘dirty’ then we first thought. In the USA, that so-called ‘bastion’ of humanity, the country with the moral high-ground (it does not have the moral high-ground, by the way. It has not had that for many years) we find that the two main parties – the Republicans and the Democrats are at war, fighting for the next election to go their way. The dirty tricks abound, and the Republicans (how does anyone actually vote for these people?) are out to control your lives, from the top down. The war that has been running for some years now is being fought over control – it is little different to the ideals of early Russia where the elite kept the rest in ignorance for decade after decade. It continues still, in other guises, true, but it is still the same war, the same battles. The two main parties are poles apart: http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican In Britain we have recently been told that people want the Christian ‘way of life’ back into the main-stream. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/21/jack-straw-support-david-cameron-christian-britain Why? In the name of whatever you may hold holy, why? I had to read this, with a shock at some of the phrasing: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/17/christianity-compels-me-to-make-difference We are still faced with Governments and their ministers promoting their faith-based agendas – if it is of a faith, then it must be OK, somehow acceptable. This brings me neatly on to the depressing subject of the Middle East. Almost all of those countries are despotic, ruthless, religious-doctrine ruled. And it shows. We have Saudi Arabia and all the nightmares of that country, Iran, with its ever-closer nuclear program, and all the rest. I will include a nuclear Israel in this list, as it is physically within the Middle East, but may as well be a million miles from it, and centuries ahead of the level of the thinking for that area. I see no reason to trust any single country within that area, except Israel. They truly stand alone, against all their neighbours. The current fiasco of the USA government has not helped them recently. Any government, wherever it is, but be a secular one. To be a government run on religious doctrine and other antiquated ideas is to damn that country – it simply does not belong in the 21st century!