Faith and Reason
People have been dancing around the faith/reason duality for more than 2000 years. Aristotle worked out the rules of logic around 350 BCE, and Thomas Aquinas assumed the task of using them to prove the existence of God in the 13th Century CE. Descartes came along a couple of hundred years later, and made some improvements on all this, but we’re still left with very little.
As I told my nephew once when he was assigned a college paper on this, “You can’t have your metaphysical cake and eat it too. You either believe in things for which there is evidence, or you don’t.”
Moreover, as shown at left, faith runs headlong into logical inconsistencies.
At left is how I feel about Trumpism. I may be limited in how I can go about preventing it from entering the world, but I’ll be damned if it will happen through me.
Wonder who this “patriot” voted for.
What we have at left is a continuation of the discussion: who is more disgusting? Trump or his voters?
No one knows the precise content of this “shouting match,” but it’s reasonable to assume that Pirro didn’t want to go down via prosecutorial misconduct, simply to allow Trump to avoid blame for his outrageous decision to have an incompetent crony redo the Reflecting Pool.
This from Sartre.
Right-wingers, like the fellow shown here, tend to make broad and unfair generalizations about the left.
About 40% of Americans are proud to have a president who would commit the act of cowardice described at left.
Well-educated people see what’s happening here in Trump’s America, and they’re calling out a warning. Are we listening?
The whole world is hoping desperately that the United States can recover from the plunge it’s taken into hatred and ignorance.
