The following comment was posted on Gail Collins' OpEd about Todd Akin in the
NYT . It is well written and expressive. I think "Faith is blind and always
will be" in the article should have been "Faith has blinders on and always
will."
Comments are welcome.
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* Bruce Blodgett
* Crestone, CO
Belief trumps fact not only among the Tea Party faithful but a large portion of
the population. Belief is simpler, easier, faster. When believers try to find
facts to stabilize their beliefs, they have started down a road that leads
ultimately nowhere. The best we can do is make fun of them the way Gail Collins
does so beautifully. There is no arguing with a believer who scorns science as
a source of truth. Faith is blind and always will be. Faith always turns to the
past for wisdom, never to the hard work of real research, which is generally
pointed in the direction of the unknown, of the future. It deifies ancestors
like Founding Fathers and chisels wisdom in stone. Faith is the opposite of
thought. "God Bless America" and" In God We Trust" are expressions that America
uses to shield itself from truth, that it wraps itself in for warmth and ends
up suffocating the very freedom it so cherishes.
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