Hey werner, you should work at Fox News - you'd fit right in.
Ya know, perhaps even you have a certain allegience to dogma huh? Well don't sweat it. We all do for the most part. Its the blind and dumb part that is the problem.
Anyway, you quoted me out of context, just like your buddies at fox. As I said, dogma becomes the tool of authority, again no huge problem unless us shmoes are either too ignorant or are actually willfuly ignorant of our duty to challenge it on terms of reason and morality. Authority is cool if its deserved and earned, and the only way to know that is challenge it.
I suppose the older I get, the more interested I am in living in the moment. kinda zen. the rest, I really just don't know about. doesn't really seem to affect me either way in the long run.
america has always been defined by personal freedom, populism, and religion
so, unlike the Europeans...most Americans are not cowed by or are downright suspicious of or even defiant toward ...powerhouse intellectuals, the cultural elite, and those pesky scientific brainiacs
and so ...many, many Americans are not the least bit ashamed of their devotion toward outlandish nonsense: conspiracy theories, medical quackery, pseudo science, fringe politics, hippie utopianism, crass pop culture and mindless consumerism, xenophobia, fad diets, bizarre "lifestyles" that center around gun fanaticism, fundamentalist religion, etc etc etc
I don't get all the negative spins on this. Not believing in evolution is really quite the astute observation on the part of a citizenry whose country invented Walmart. Bravo, America, you have seen no evidence of evolution, and you're not afraid to say it.
80 % of Europeans believe in creationism? That seems darn high. Really, if you ask yourself did we come from an explosion of epic proportions(having started from a mass the size of a pin head) or with the help of some mighty intervention, they both tweak the brain. 30 seconds of serious pondering and my noodle starts twisting.
I still think there was an intervention, myself. But, maybe its the southern country backasswards in me.
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
Hey werner, you should work at Fox News - you'd fit right in.
Ya know, perhaps even you have a certain allegience to dogma huh? Well don't sweat it. We all do for the most part. Its the blind and dumb part that is the problem.
You said dogma people should be put to the firing squad. Werner said that would be about 99% of hmanity. You responded with the above, agreeing with him.
Let us know!