The Point Is That Most Of What

We Have Christians Against Muslims Against Jews, And No Matter How Liberal Your Theology, Merely Identifying Yourself As A Christian Or A Jew Lends Tacit Validity To This Status Quo. People Have Morally Identified With A Subset Of Humanity Rather Than With Humanity As A Whole.

Spiritual Life Can Certainly Follow The Pattern One Sees In The Fake Martial Arts, With Most Teachers Making Nebulous And Magical Claims That Never Get Tested, While Their Students Derange Themselves With Weird Ideas, Empty Rituals, And Other Affectations.

Science, In The Broadest Sense, Includes All Reasonable Claims To Knowledge About Ourselves And The World.

Unreason Is Now Ascendant In The United States—in Our Schools, In Our Courts, And In Each Branch Of The Federal Government.

Religious Faith Obscures Uncertainty Where Uncertainty . . . Exists, Allowing The Unknown, The Implausible, And The . . . False To Achieve Primacy Over The Facts.