What American writer Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time) said at left rings true to most educated people around the world.

Monotheistic religion is built around fear. There is no other reason to believe that an omnipotent being is tuned into everything you think and do, and, if He doesn’t like what He sees, will happily sentence you to an eternity of torture.

I seldom criticize others’ beliefs, but this is a concept unworthy of an intelligent species.

More to the point, we’re at a watershed point in human civilization.  So many of our planetary woes are built on the idea that my God in the sky is better than yours.

Let it be purged from humankind. If we still have an organized society here in 100 years, we will have long since disposed of this stupidity.

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Probably because he knows that his base is so ignorant on this topic that they don’t know that China and its corporate interests own a negligible amount of our land.

There are 880 million acres of farmland in the U.S., 39 million (4.4%) of which are foreign owned (see pie chart below).  Of that, China owns 0.9%, or 0.004% of the whole.

Another thing to be said about Vance’s audience is that they are unlikely to ask themselves: How could the U.S. “take back” land that is legally owned by another party?

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I doubt it.

If there’s any take-away from the last 10 years, it’s that these people are not psychologically capable of questioning anything that comes out of Trump’s mouth.

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