all true thoughts of God are banished, lest they interfere with our worship of what we ourselves do make -- strange images of death and love, prosperity and power. So we are left with this so-called choice, between those who openly move to affirm this banishment of God, and those who also practice it but behind a mask of pious interjections. If, with our votes, we are willing to validate this choice as an election, what becomes of our resort to the Creator God and the appeal for His justice that mainly defines us as Americans? That is why I, for one, refuse to do so.