Delerium Putrescens
So I get an email this past week from a guy who claims he loved my writing until he got around to the “religious stuff”, then I lost all credibility. I not sure to which article or articles he was referring. He went on to say a bunch of offensive garbage, and some things about my mother. Yawn. There’s a lot of that in talk radio as well; “stealth” callers from encampments of the Left who get on the air and claim they just love a show and just love the host, then proceed to talk them down. It’s a way of trying to throw the host off balance as well as cast doubt amongst their listeners. The point being that I seriously doubt this was a secular conservative who was honestly offended; most secular conservatives I’ve had contact with respect the views and the rights of religious and spiritual people (there’s a difference); thus, I’ve never heard one spout similar twaddle.
The more I am exposed to manifestations of the “nonexistent” war on religion and traditional values, the more fascinating and dangerous I find the enemy combatants. It’s not that I believe they’ll win in the end, it’s just that their modus operandi becomes more and more predictable to me with every move they make, perhaps due to the degree of spiritual awareness I’ve been blessed to receive.
Individuals who choose to exclude all things religious and / or spiritual from their lives have a right to do so; that’s what free will is all about. The significant observation, I believe, lies in the way such people typically conduct themselves. They’re nasty. In general, I wonder why they don’t alienate far more people than they appear to with their deception, falsehoods, calumnies, and appallingly base and condescending rhetoric.
One can choose to exclude all things religious and spiritual from their lives… One could also make a decision to never again brush their teeth or bathe. The result of the former, of course would be periodontal disease, decay of their teeth and soft, rank gums. Swearing off bathing forever would result in repulsive odor, a variety of dermatological maladies, and finally putrescent pustules and infections. Some have the potential to prove fatal.
Even the seemingly permanent fixture on (PBS) the Public Broadcasting Service - traditionally no friend of traditionalism – the spiritually-insightful Dr. Wayne Dyer, claims that everyone has a sense of God, but that many, perhaps a majority of people, never “make the connection” with Him. Somehow I don’t think it was one of his fans that sent the email.
The result of the exclusion of all things spiritual from one’s life results in something analogous to never brushing one’s teeth or bathing: Soul-sickness. One might go through life blissfully unaware of it, but others would take notice. One might wind up indigent, miserable, incarcerated, or one might wind up looking good in a $50,000 suit tooling around in their Viper – or in the case of some of our more foul-mouthed recording artists, the proverbial turd in a punchbowl tooling around in their Viper.
Delirium tremens is the term used to describe a phenomenon that can occur during an alcoholic’s withdrawal from alcohol; it includes seizures, hallucinations, and sometimes such grave attendant physiological symptoms that it can actually result in the individual’s death. “Delirium” is the root word that becomes “delirious”; “tremens, “to tremble”, associated with the violent shaking of the seizure aspect.
I think that Delirium putrescens is probably an apt parallel for this soul-sickness; delirious with delusion, and spiritually putrefactive. Outside, one may or may not be “looking good”, but on the inside, they’re rotting. Hence the tendency toward negative attitudes, egocentricity and narcissism, hatefulness and ignobility we so often see in those on the far Left.
Some atheists assert that religion was “invented” to control populations. Were that true, I think the “inventor” would have to have been the single most ingenious person ever to walk the planet, because we are really all savages – but savages with a sense of the spiritual that we can choose to develop, or not. If you doubt it, just go online and view some of the beheading videos.
In truth, religion arose from a need make spirituality understandable and provide a means for those who had not yet had direct spiritual experiences to have the opportunity to experience them. God knew where we would have gone without moral law over the last 5,000 years. There’s your “inventor” – just in case you’re still looking.
Erik Rush is a black conservative columnist, author and sometime radio host. Visit his website at erikrush.com.
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