This from right-wing TV anchor Candace Owens:

‘Listen. I’m not a flat-earther. I’m not a round-earther.’ Actually, what I am is, I am somebody who has left the cult of science. I have left the megachurch of science because what I have now realized is that science—what it is actually, if you think about it—is a pagan faith.”

Fortunately, very few people perceive science in this way, but I guess if you’re going to hold yourself out as one of the most prominent members of the U.S. right-wing political spokespeople, you’re essentially forced to go in this direction.  Accepting science as the best way of gaining an understanding of the world around us is not an option; it’s for woke liberals.  Moreover, calling science it a “pagan faith” is not going to cost you one red cent in terms of your following of American idiots.

A few hundred years ago, some poor guy suggested that the stars in the sky might be other suns around which planets like ours orbited; he was promptly burned at the stake.  And going to that level of stupidity and cruelty may very well lie in our collective futures.

Whether or not this becomes a reality lies in precisely one thing: how seriously we as a civilization accept the viewpoints of morons like Candace Owens.  Our future lies exactly here.

Rejecting Science as “Pagan Faith”