Previously by Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy: Myth, Morality, and Osama bin Laden Voting in governmental election is participation in violence. That is not political ideology, that is just fact. Voting in governmental elections is participation in violence because that is what governmental elections are about at their root. A governmental election is one method of legitimating the use of violence of one human being against another. The divine right of kings or the right of primogeniture would be others. All such mechanisms — elections, divine right of king, the right of primogeniture, drawing straws — are rooted in cultural fantasies … Continue reading Voting Is Violence