Faith Based Everything

We all know the term "faith-based." It's usually applied to religious groups, who coined the phrase. It is, in fact, how they pursue their religion, and ostensibly their god.

It's not the religious context I want to bring up. The most powerful faith based idea around is in the economic realm. This global, free market, libertarian, neo-conservative capitalism, that has been embraced by conservatives and the Republican Party, including the wholey owned subsidiary Tea Party, is an entirely faith based economic ideology. It has it's holy scriptures, tenets of the faith, it's prophets, high priests, preachers, evangelists, seminaries, churches and cathedrals. To speak against this economic religion is to commit blasphemy and be branded a heretic.

Another is that of the military-industrial complex. However, there's a lot of corruption by the above. The whole basis of the MIC is there's a lot of MONEY to be made, and the way to do it is by imagining enemies everywhere that want to kill us. With making money the prime virtue of the faith, only a few heretics question it.

The big problem with faith based anything is that it obscures reality, making any problems that arise out of the idea in question nearly impossible to overcome.