We live in a world where people cannot live without their smartphone, but are often utterly ignorant of, if not downright hostile to, the very science that allows the technology to function. The puritanical values that much of this country accepts has perpetuated a void in science education for several generations now. The fact is that scientific inquiry over the last several hundred years (from geology to genetics) has soundly revealed the falsehoods and stone age philosophies that lie at the core of mainstream religions. Evolution and climate science are only deniable if you are willfully ignorant of the body of evidence. You can only be ignorant of the evidence if you are either purposefully uninformed, or if you get your information from sources that have a vested interest in keeping you UNinformed...like the Church, or their media arms and political allies. These people are resistant to the truth because it would force them to completely redefine their place in the universe. They resist evolution because that means that the Genesis account of creation and Eden is incorrect, and if the creation story is untrue, then logically the rest of the narrative is thrown into question as well. It isn't their ego they are trying to protect so much as they are trying to save their messiah from the trash bin of history.
There is much wisdom to be found in religious text, but little to no honest history...and certainly no science.
It could be convincingly argued that the more philosophical abstractions of eastern religions are not so damaging to the modern world, but the Buddhist aren't running our government... And if they were, we'd be in a much better place as a species than what we get from these superstitious, patriarchal fools.
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