Religion in American Politics
Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger gives us what is possibly the very best view into what life was like in the days of ancient Rome.
As we can see at left, the situation in today’s United States bears a distinct resemblance to life 2000 years ago. In particular, almost none of our scientists are believers, as contrasted against the vast majority of “the common people,” as Seneca put it.
As far as our rulers are concerned, Christianity, and the more fanatical the better, serves Donald Trump very well, as some are convinced that God Himself sent us the president to save our nation from ruin, whether that means gender fluidity, socialism, the invasion of immigrants, wokeism, liberal education, climate change mitigation, etc.
What the current pope is doing is proof that there are many options available to religious people with respect to science.
Those who are involved in science are concerned that American society is threated by misinformation.
This isn’t a bad idea, if you don’t have a problem selling your house for 65 – 70% of what it’s worth on the open market.
We’d all love to believe this, but if we are being honest with one another, we simply can’t.
I’m not sure we need a campaign to make this happen. Anyone who wants to a) listen to Trump or b) be a part of his state sponsored media is both stupid and mean.
There are some extremely disturbing trends out there in the world, and the most visible of them are here in the United States.
This looks great. My only challenge is “ignoring nonsense.”
What Neil deGrasse Tyson says here is good. Among other things. cremation requires energy that has to come from somewhere.
At left is something I came across on social media, and here’s what I wrote them:
