55% of Republicans believe the world is less than 10 000 years old. They effectively rule the world now. Discussion about this is taboo in America. Nobody can say in public it’s absolutely mad.
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Voltaire’s warning rings loudly… “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” And this is where we are now.
aug 9, 2025, 2:23 am • 2 0 • view
I’ve long held that young earth creationism is the kernel around which the current U.S. right’s rejection of empiricism formed.
aug 9, 2025, 2:21 am • 2 0 • view
The Pope is from Illinois. I'm not worried on that front. "..it's absolutely mad.." is absolutely right, though. That's the part nobody wants to say in public.
aug 9, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view