Our politicians are applying their trade in a way that increases polarization and pathology. As an extreme moderate, I think the Christian Right has turned satanic, failing to recognize the impiety, arrogance and pride they express when they deny the omnipotence of their deity.
Of course God can create the universe. And of course evolution can happen by design. But it happens, and to deny it is stupid! More properly, the Fundo-Mentals deny God's ability to do more than they can imagine.
And the progressives fail themselves by creating their platform as a reaction to the right. We should be proud to practice altruism and proud to protect our families', friends' and neighbors' jobs, lives, standing. And some of the stuff being done in the name of art and liberty is pretty yucky.
But the whole government is trying to master the wedge right now, Republicans tweezing social issues apart in a way that forces people to choose between Constitutional reality and should-be-hypothetical abberations.
Democrats are scrambling to find their own wedge, something they can apply to shave membership off the big dumb block of the bare-minimum majority. But they both have momentum, and we're getting more polarized. They practice extreme rhetoric because they can't contribute in society. They can only find their place seated ABOVE us.
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Joe... when you write "when they deny the omnipotence of their deity" you sure threw me for a loop at first. But by the next graf I can see your meaning that it's an unconscious denial based on your assertion that to deny evolution entirely, rather than say "sure, God could do that" is to deny omnipotence."
Well, I guess you could make that argument. But you'd be talking past them. Their argument rests on Biblical interpretation, not on the extension of the dreaded LOGIC to speculations of God's power(s). Interpretation, literal of course, says six days (and of course being literal means a 24-hour day not some mythical or metaphorical day) so that must be what it means. No room for eons of gradual change or eons of almost no change punctuated by cataclysms.
They deny reason and thinking and empiricism by intent, and if you asked, they'd never deny omnipotence but say "Sure, it's possible given omnipotence. But the Bible doesn't say "evolution" so it can't be true."
Cheers!!
More on impiety: By taking the Bible out of the Church and telling the world what it says without eyes averted from the Majesty, the entire Protestant Reformation gives to the unwashed immediate control over what justifies their beliefs as they're made up. Original Sin can't be cured, only forgiven. These idiots claim they can rise above their mortality while they're still clearly here on a planet.
Christ wasn't a judge, unless you brought usury into the Temple.
More on Intelligent Design: If we're supposed to infer or assume AN intelligence was in on the planning, then we need to admit it couldn't have been done in six days.
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