Until I came across this statement from Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss years ago, it hadn’t dawned on me that teaching children evangelical Christianity could be properly called “child abuse.”
I can tell you that I took some grief from certain family members when I didn’t send my young kids off to Sunday School. I explained that I wouldn’t have my son and daughter indoctrinated into a belief that is distinctly counter-scientific.
My family and I eventually mended the fences, but it was rough for a while.
If it makes you happy to tell your kids that, when they die, they will live up in heaven with grandma, that’s OK with me, since no one really know what happens upon our demise. But there is something that’s particularly objectionable about explaining to young people that there were no dinosaurs, and that they must never trust scientists.
Insofar as the Constitution clearly assigns the states the responsibility to regulate and conduct elections, what Trump wants so desperately to do will require a significant re-write of the document that (most) Americans hold sacred.
Shall We Re-Write the U.S. Constitution Before the Midterms?
Maybe a single day will pass sometime in America’s future during which Trump or one of his moron cabinet members will refrain from making some idiotic remark like the one at left.
Our founding fathers couldn’t have been more clear that the United States was not established as a Christian nation. (See below.)
These people (Big Oil PR teams?) write:
Celebrate the many benefits of increasing CO2! Deserts are shrinking. Forests are expanding. Increasing crop productivity is outpacing population growth. We love CO2 and so should you.
In truth, increasing levels of CO2 are not helping plants grow. Plants use as much carbon dioxide as they need, and no more. Similarly, healthy people do not benefit from higher concentrations of oxygen.
We live in world of misinformation, in which, if lies are repeated with enough frequency, they are accepted by the common American.
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