Playing God

EVIDENTLY, DONALD TRUMP, with nothing but the stroke of a pen, by decreeing an edict, in effect passed a law which allows medical professionals in America to refrain from offering any medical assistance to any patients which violates their (the medical professional's) personal religious beliefs. That's true, isn't it? Am I dreaming? Did congress pass the law, did the supreme court decide it, or did the chief executive sign the law into being? Fact or fiction, anytime in America that anybody or any governmental entity, local, state, or federal, puts forward a proposal legalizing discrimination on the basis of religion, we're in trouble. The proponents of this religious zealotry are not trying, as they claim, to defend religious liberty, but rather, to insert religion (Christian) into American government, and by degrees, turn the U.S. into a theocracy. This is the opposite of the founder's intentions, and is antithetical to the very principles upon which our nation was founded, and thrives. The religious exemptions, as they are being called, presumably refer to the christian religion, although there is evidently nothing in the actual wording of the proclamation which specifically says so, which is weird, but understandable, coming as it is from Christian zealotry, one of which the president, periodically and to great humorous effect, pretends to be. No longer will pro life forced birth christian zealot types be required to assist or participate in any way in , say, abortions. Religious exemptions can, at length, to great lengths, as anyone can, in theory and in practice, embrace any religious belief of one's choice, and, by extension, refraining from rendering medical assistance at any time of one's own choosing, based on religious beliefs. Der Trumpster the human Dumpster and his millions member gang of religious zealots and right wing red neck hate mongers may have unwittingly opened a can of worms far larger than their meager ability to control. someone cogently pointed out that this executive decree has simply got to go, and I suggested that it might require convincing the supreme court that the religious exemptions decree is unconstitutional because it refer to the christian religion, and therefore violates the clause against congress/government from establishing any religion in its governance. But of course, I aint a lawyer. Maybe the supreme court will rule that religious exemptions are in fact constitutional, which means all religions, not just christian. Everyone can use personal religious exemptions, no matter what the religion or religious beliefs, to become exempt from helping anyone, at anytime. I won't give her emergency roadside assistance because she has an image of a cross on her bumper, which is against my religion. You can imagine a young doctor asserting that according to his religious beliefs, conservative Republican evangelical Christians must not be given modern medical treatments for their illnesses and medical conditions, but must rather be left in the hands of God, their God, whom, according to them, will take care of everything. Perhaps the brilliant brain surgeon from Pakistan will consider it absolutely necessary, from the viewpoint of his religion, to refrain from entering the skull of a Christian without the permission of the christian god. Who knows? Anything, as they say, can happen, and therefore anything, says Murphy, will. As individual's and as a society, we must be careful to consider unintended consequences of our actions, and to ask ourselves the degree, extent, and wisdom of trying to play God, or imitate God.