Comment Re:It is time to call it (Score 1) 726
It will not happen overnight (hell, I have been watching it for 30+ years), but economic prosperity was the US' to lose, and the Religious Right is destroying it, bit by bit.
[sarcasm]Yep, it's all their fault. Not exploding deficits, corrupt unions, a horrible school system or stupid regulations. The religious right's fault, entirely [/sarcasm]
Once upon a time, I thought that open communication would help empiricism win out over magical thought, but after watching a couple of decades of religious right mumbo jumbo flowing out over the Internet, unperterbed by anything resembling empirical scepticism, I think nothing will penetrate their confirmation bias.
s/religious right/environuts/. Clearly, this is exactly what's happened with climategate.
By pandering to our population's basest fears, they are systematically destroying the ability of one generation to teach the next how to think critically, and disrupting our ability to maintain science and math competence. We're toast, and it is time to acknowledge that, as the primitives dance around celebrating the 100th birthday of their harbinger, Ronald Reagan.
Nice bait-and-switch. Religious people must be terrible at math then! Please do not put climatology and evo-psyche on par with 2 + 2 = 4, that's just offensive.
I am so glad my SOs do not want children.
I, along with other Christians, would like to thank you for this. Clearly your Christophobia will not be spread into the next generation.