Irrealidad

Yo no soy una personal religiosa. En mi caso, no es una cuestión de credo, sencillamente no creo en la existencia de lo sobrenatural. No puedo dejar de sorprenderme por la progresía de EEUU, lo que en ese país llaman los “liberals”, con acento en la “i”. Esta gente es partidaria de la separación de la iglesia del estado, posición que yo comparto. ¿Cómo se explica entonces la mórbida fascinación que sienten muchos de ellos por teocracias salidas del siglo XIII? ¿En qué quedamos?

Hay quienes piensan que la progresía de EEUU ha perdido contacto con la realidad. Como de costumbre, muchas de estas personas habitan en un mundo paralelo, donde los hechos son detalles menores:

Are liberals soft on the war on terror? Yes. No, that wasn’t said by President Bush or Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, or on a current GOP television ad. It’s the conclusion of philosopher and scientist Sam Harris, whose new book, "Letter to a Christian Nation," is now on the best seller list.

Harris’ first book dealt with his atheistic disagreements with religion and won him plaudits from the secular crowd.

In his interactions with both secularists and Christians after writing his first book, he notes "my correspondence with liberals has convinced me that liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world … despite abundant evidence to the contrary, liberals continue to imagine that Muslim terrorism springs from economic despair, lack of education and American militarism.

"I don’t know how many more engineers and architects need to blow themselves up, fly planes into buildings or saw the heads off of journalists before this fantasy will dissipate."

Mr. Harris mentions the current 9-11 conspiracy theories as another example of the dangerous fantasies that many leftists hold dear.

"Liberals hate the current administration with such fury that they regularly fail to acknowledge just how dangerous and depraved our enemies in the Muslim world are," he notes.

The one group which speaks with moral clarity about the war in the Middle East is the religious right, Mr. Harris notes, while admitting he disagrees with that group over almost every other political issue.

"Unless liberals realize that there are tens of millions of people in the Muslim world who are far scarier than Dick Cheney, they will be unable to protect civilization from its genuine enemies," he concludes.