Look, I don’t have a lot of time to write today, but in case a few of my loyal kibbitzers are checking in, I wanted to provide at least a little food for thought. Here’s one article I happened across this morning, before I invested the rest of my day at a real estate broker’s open house (a topic for a future post):
Americans Would Rather Vote For A Philandering, Pot-Smoking President Than An Atheist One
This depresses the hell out of me, although it surprises me not one iota. Americans would sooner vote for someone who believes in any kind of religious nonsense at all, Catholic, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, whatever, than a candidate who looks around him, evaluates the science and the evidence and the history, and makes the completely rational decision to reject the idea of our fate and our planet being controlled by a magical being in the sky who is omniscient and omnipotent, yet still gives us houseflies, anal carcinoma, and Justin Bieber, not necessarily in that order. Out of sixteen variables surveyed, the one with the most negative connotation was atheism. I’m pretty sure Americans would elect a pedophile serial murderer, just so long as he professed his surrender and devotion to his personal lord and savior, sooner than a rocket scientist with additional PhD’s in history and political science who also happened to not believe in god.
Which is how you get guys like Florida State Rep. Charles Van Zant (R), who declared that if Florida adopts Common-Core standards in education, “unless this is stopped, will promote double-mindedness in state education and will attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can.” You can’t make this shit up. Van Zant is clearly a moron, but he managed to get elected, and I’d be willing to bet the farm and the pension that he’s in church every Sunday as reliably as the sun rising over the eastern horizon. God help us all…and good luck with that.
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