The Way Religion Fits Into Western Society Hasn’t Changed Too Much
Here’s a glass-is-half-full kind of atheist whose attitude should be admired. Look at how close we are to complete agreement!
I’m reminded of a guided tour I once had at the J. Paul Getty collection of antiquities. I asked the guy, “Are you trying to tell me that the ancient Greeks who developed geometry, democracy, ethics, metaphysics, and so many disciplines within the arena of science believed that the sun was pulled across the sky by some fellow driving a chariot?”
He smiled, “Well, their society was surprisingly like ours. True, Socrates, Euclid and the others didn’t believe that stuff, but the people growing grapes 200 miles outside of Athens never thought to question it. Today, if you’re a molecular biologist or an astrophysicist, you’re extremely unlikely to believe that an omniscient being is looking down on you and guiding your life. But what about the people growing corn in Iowa?”
From where we sit at this point, it certainly does appear that Trump interfered with the election. It’s hard to know if the evidence as it currently exists would be sufficient to obtain a conviction, but keep in mind that the body of evidence is growing by the day; by next week at this time, things could look as black as the ace of spades for the former president.
Here’s a start-up that is 
Apparently, this is a pic of one of Donald Trump’s lawyers…., hoping to get paid.
The ugly part of dealing with the anti-vaxxers is that there are so many different flavors of them. One such sort are the religionists, who believe: “Faith, not fear.”
Here’s a phenomenon that shows no sign of abating:
So much remains unknown, or at least unproven, at this point. Yet it appears inevitable that the evidence will point to a massive undertaking to undermine the election.
Is the state of New York going to be as permissive as the U.S. Congress when it comes to people ignoring subpoenas?
By the time ExxonMobil finally paid restitution to the people whose lives were disfigured by the 1989 oil spill from the Exxon Valdez , more than 8000 of them had died, either of the disease the spill caused, or of old age.
Timothy David Snyder is an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
