The Jews say that there is no pronounced name for God. Rather, when asked what His name was, the Deity replies “I am that I am.” Is God saying that He is just science?
Do we Need Modern Blasphemy Laws?
Before the era of science, what we call the enlightenment, all kingdoms had blasphemy laws. These laws were deemed to be necessary to maintain order ..after all if everyone did not agree that Jesus was God and George was King by divine right, how could society be governed?
The American revolution came at the moment in time where the utility of these laws went away since we were able to use sconce and reason both to govern ourselves and to begin to understand the world around us.
Returning to the blasphemy of science deniers as well as those who want to insist that the US Constitution was based on the Bible, here are FACTS that have been true since the early 1800s ..
1. Human law, based on the ideas of John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, David Hume, Voltaire and others, are an ideal replacement for divine laws. These ideas of the Greeks, Gautama, and Confucius already existed in ethnic groups but the enlightenment taught that rational law was the right of all humans.
2. Physical law came into its own as well. The entire universe can be explained by mathematical and probabilistic laws. There is no need to posit a “creator.”
3. Religion, as a source, dwindled. Large parts of the Roman bible, esp. the parts dealing with cosmology and biology are wrong. Through science, humans have the ability to determine the future of the world ..for better or worse.
4. Economists showed that money is only useful when converted to productive capital.
Denying these REAL facts is as dangerous to our society as the denial of religious laws was imagined to be before the enlightenment.
You have to wonder if it’s really “Idiocracy” or just a bunch of nut cases?. Well boys and girls, ya’ll are up in the land of the living. I’m living outside New Orleans in Southern Mississippi…….
Be afraid…be very afraid. As an ex-interrogator/psychological Operations propagandist I’m here to tell you. They revelle in their ignorance and worse, are easily controlled. That is WHY ALL RED STATES ARE NOW IN THE SOUTH. The have created an Army with a lot of “angst” towards the East and West Coasts……Better match your latest voting and census/poverty maps. It’s like they drew a line. http://www.propagandistyoda007.com
Funny, the rght wants us to fear the existential threat of fanatic murders in far off lands while they plant the seed of hatred in our own soil.