Call of the Hour by T.S. Khanna, December 5, 2015

Foundation for Better Government

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December 5, 2015

Call of the Hour

By T.S. Khanna, December 5, 2015.

Recent mass killings are eloquently defining the call of the hour: Democracy, in its present form, is now inadequate to face the new challenge of providing adequate security for the citizens from home bred or foreign fed terrorists.  The rising level of insecurity is caused by growing (a) global Islamic fanaticism, and, (b) violent culture at home.

Let us examine the origin and growth of religious fanaticism and the government’s inability to provide adequate security.

“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is insanity; when a group of people suffer from delusions, it is justified as religion.  Every religion is a psychiatric disorder in which faith oriented believers seek mental comfort and justification for their actions from imaginary sources.  Each religion has created its own God whose imaginary picture is weaved in an imaginary fabric.  Specific values are then assigned to God to gratify the idiosyncratic fantasies of the religious leaders.”-----Anon.

If a delusion goes unchallenged for long it becomes a psychic reality, divorced from factual reality.  Conflicts between the psychic realities cannot be resolved by logic as they defy logic.  Suspension of critical thinking and unchallenged axiomatic truths continue to feed psychic realities and fanatic beliefs.

Psychic realities can also be caused by other belief systems besides religions: Democratic system of government.  The first Article of the US Constitution re the freedom of religion, and the second Article re citizens’ right to bear arms, have created a psychic reality which prevents the government to take preventive action against terrorists, home grown or ISIS fed.

Call of the hour is to revisit, reinterpret, or amend the two Articles to allow, as a starter,

• Examining the religious books of every religion against the constitution and prohibit the teachings in conflict with the constitution.  Violations may be heavily punishable;
• All religious institutions may be open to all people all the time, by law;
• Banning violent games for children;
• In public schools, to introduce courses on high morality for humanity, not religion specific;
• Prohibit proselytizing of religions;
• Restrict the right to bear only specified arms for adult citizens of sound character for specified uses.  Misused arms may be confiscated.