Saturday, April 9, 2022

Enumerating Eternal Verities

SOME MEDIEVAL SCHOLAR become Christian apologist wrote a book called "The Eternal Verities of the Christian Faith", of which there are but few. Of the vast number of truths inherent in a vast universe there are three which are especially relevant to contemporary American society. All three must be accepted and embraced by everyone, sooner or later, one way or another. There is no other real choice. Here they are: 1) humn evolution by natural selection is indisputable fact. 2) Manmade climate change is real. 3)The presidential election of 2020 was not stolen. Certainly, reality is replete with articulatable truths, trillions. But the three just named are the ones we must focus on, laregly because they are not only of fundamental importance, but also, that they are so widely rejected. The verifiable fact that a majority of American consrvativese reject all three reflects horribly on contemporary American conservatism, and its desperate need to change and improve. Refusing to believe in climate change and refusal to accept Trump's election defeat are both maliciously false beliefs, concocted for nefarious reasons, both of which have the potential to destroy the United States, and, in the case of climate change, the world's ecosystem, and all life on Earth. The right wing indulges in both these delusons for the reason best expressed in a quote by Goethe: "We resist the truth only because we fear that we might perish if we accept it." If the election wasn't stolen, then Trump lost fair and square, and most of America rejects Trump, which to the far right, meaning almot all the American conservative communitiiy, simply cannot accept or abide, for its too painful. Same with climate change. To accept that human activity cause climate change means accepting that human activity , bevavior, economc andpolitical systems must be changed fundamentally, drastically, immediately, an idea so repugnat to tradition oriented conservatives as to be unthinkable, unacceptable. If climate change and a fair election are reailty, then the liberals are right, the conservatives are wrong, which to conservatives, is a thought too horrible to contemplate. Nevertheless, they must be forced to not only contemplate, but completely accept these facts. The future of the United States and the world are at stake. The indisputable fact is that none of the three eternal great truths discussed here are in any sense a matter of opinion. They are not opinion, but absolute truth. Denial of evolution, climate change, and election results are all three idiotic, and deadly harmful. We the human race are not taking urgently needed action to reverse climate change only because of the millions of powerful people who refuse to accpet the necessity. Thus, the Earth's planetary ecosystem is in deadly peril, dying right before our very eyes. A democracy can sustain only if and when the generla population supports and sustains it by believing in it. This crazy Trump election denial is doing horrible damage to our precious beautiful American democracy, even as we speak, and must be stopped. Refusing to believe in the reality and truth of modern scence because of blind allegience to a primitive religion with outdated beliefs is highly detrimental to progress and improvement of human civilization. Consider, for instance, the Taliban. I rest my case. throughout Christian history devout christians have conisdered it crucial to not only defend bu to spread and promote their so called "eternal truths", most of which is not all of which are false. Sane scientific sober minded senisible people must begin to do the same with scientific reality. Our very lives depend on it.

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