The first Trump presidency, the Church issued statements on a regular basis denouncing his policies and things his administration was doing.
This time, the First Presidency officially congratulated him, two Apostles went to his inauguration, and there hasn't been a peep from the Newsroom about any of the administration's problematic actions.
I wonder to what extent it is because they seem him as an ally, and to what extent they see it as self-preservation to not do anything that might offend someone with a revenge fetish that's surrounded by religionists that think Mormonism is a non-Christian cult.
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In the perspective of progressives, they perceive America as racist due to the significant presence of white individuals in the country. .....
Progressives seem to accept discrimination against whites and Asians, perceiving them as individuals who are already well off. Progressives exhibit deep-seated racism!
Probably the stupidest comment about race I've read in the past year. I realize that Hound did not invent this mutated version of the word racism. It has been around for a few years and seems to have been programmed into his machinery.
Probably the stupidest comment about race I've read in the past year. I realize that Hound did not invent this mutated version of the word racism. It has been around for a few years and seems to have been programmed into his machinery.
It is the austerity mindset. You can only care about one "race" at a time. I chose the human race.
In the perspective of progressives, they perceive America as racist due to the significant presence of white individuals in the country. .....
Progressives seem to accept discrimination against whites and Asians, perceiving them as individuals who are already well off. Progressives exhibit deep-seated racism!
Probably the stupidest comment about race I've read in the past year. I realize that Hound did not invent this mutated version of the word racism. It has been around for a few years and seems to have been programmed into his machinery.
Racism is just one brand of stupidity, and people who think white people suffer from racism are among the stupidest of all racists.
Anyone who thinks white people's opportunities are suppressed due to racism is a whiney damned loser who can't take responsibility for their own problems.
Religion is for people whose existential fear is greater than their common sense.
I guess Hound isn't going to lead us in a discussion over what criteria Harvard should use for enrollment. Is it test score merit? Or affirm whites according to white representation in 'Merika as a whole?
It might be worth noting this isn't the first time Harvard has been criticized for its admission policy. The most important person in right-wing conspiracy lore was the historian and scholar Carroll Quigley. Quigley wrote a long book in the 60s about how our present institutions are the fruits of what we'd now call the illuminati.
Bill Clinton was a student of Quigley's and set off the Bircher alarm system like mad when he once made an incidental comment about Quigley as his influence in school -- he'd been a student. Cleon Skousen -- why I know about him -- had gone nuts over Quigley and wrote a review of Quigley's masterwork called "The Naked Capitalist". Imagine Birchers, already deep in the knowledge that Quigley is the gateway to the international banking conspiracies, are lounging around watching the news, and Bill Clinton himself makes an off-the-cuff remark about his mentor, Carroll Quigley!
Quigley was in tears of Harvard's fall. What has it come to when the son of somebody he knew, who was very important, wasn't smart enough to get in? Harvard is about rowing together as elites, not the vicious competition of football. It's about preserving the aristocracy. Sure, whites, but not just any whites, the whites Hound advocates for need not apply. There's no room for the brilliant son of a roofer, or a plumber, at Harvard, the way that Harvard was meant to be.
Social distancing has likely already begun to flatten the curve...Continue to research good antivirals and vaccine candidates. Make everyone wear masks. -- J.D. Vance
It's nice to know that even Candace Owens acknowledges that Trump is wrong to violate the First Amendment guaranty of freedom of speech, academic freedom and of the press. She is otherwise historically and scientifically ignorant, but at least she seems to acknowledge her opponents' right to disagree with her, no matter how ill-informed she is about American history, science, and even about the very reality of our globular earth that is part of a heliocentric solar system.
Candace Owens: “I'm not a flat earther. I'm not a round earther. Actually, what I am is I am somebody who has left the cult of science.”
“Science, what it is actually, if you think about it, is a pagan faith”
Trump also claims to support the constitutional right or freedom of speech, but it is becoming blazingly obvious that what he means by freedom of speech or thought is only the right to agree with him and accept his numerous lies without any trace of critical analysis and fact checking. He equates any honest fact checking of his blatant lies with constitutionally forbidden censorship, no matter how incontrovertible or abundant the evidence against his claims.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
Candace Owens: “I'm not a flat earther. I'm not a round earther. Actually, what I am is I am somebody who has left the cult of science.”
“Science, what it is actually, if you think about it, is a pagan faith”
Wow! Talk about unhinged. What an ignorant looney!
Let's have a look at some of the fathers of modern science:
Francis Bacon was a devout Anglican. René Descartes was a devout Catholic. Robert Boyle was an apologist for the Christian faith against "atheists, deists, pagans, Jews and Muslims." Isaac Newton was unorthodox but still a believer in God.
So where is the "pagan faith" in all of this? WTF does ignoramus Candace Owens know about anything anyway?
Science is not a pagan faith. Science is not a religion.
There is faith in science. Once you read it in textbooks, science is settled, but in creating that knowledge, science needs faith. People have to spend years of their lives pursuing ideas in faith that the pursuit is worthwhile. The hypothesis might be wrong, but it has to be wrong for good reason, we have to learn something worthwhile, or I have wasted my life, and I've wasted years of smart young peoples' lives, making them do this stuff for their PhDs.
This is not the kind of faith that makes anyone confident, though. This is fear and trembling. We're going to look at reality and see. If we're wrong, we'll be wrong.
Some popular science writing tries to describe current research—as it should. Often, though, it exaggerates how confident we should be that the current hypothesis is on the right track. That's an easier story to tell.
When popular science instead describes well-accepted theories, however, it often fails badly to explain why we accept them. It can be hard to explain that. The sheer volume of information involved overwhelms us. Humans are not very smart, and the trains of thought that lead to reality are hard for meat brains to follow. So popular accounts often fall to the temptation to appeal to authority, and fail to tell the longer but more compelling story of why we really ought to believe these conclusions.
Popular science often is a religion. Actual science is not.
The impulse to reject the pseudo-religious authority of popular science is a good scientific impulse. You have to wait for the answer, though, and listen, and think. There really is a good answer.
To be a scientist you need, first of all, the hard-nosed scepticism of a used car buyer. Secondly, you need patience. You have to be willing to look and listen to a lot of stuff, and thresh it through, and not expect truth to be a conveniently packaged soundbite. Your jumped-up-monkey brain has pathetically small working memory. You are trying to follow God's thoughts, and God isn't YouTube. God makes things to work, not to be easy for you.
Science is not a pagan faith. Science is not a religion.
There is faith in science. Once you read it in textbooks, science is settled, but in creating that knowledge, science needs faith. People have to spend years of their lives pursuing ideas in faith that the pursuit is worthwhile. The hypothesis might be wrong, but it has to be wrong for good reason, we have to learn something worthwhile, or I have wasted my life, and I've wasted years of smart young peoples' lives, making them do this stuff for their PhDs.
This is not the kind of faith that makes anyone confident, though. This is fear and trembling. We're going to look at reality and see. If we're wrong, we'll be wrong.
Some popular science writing tries to describe current research—as it should. Often, though, it exaggerates how confident we should be that the current hypothesis is on the right track. That's an easier story to tell.
When popular science instead describes well-accepted theories, however, it often fails badly to explain why we accept them. It can be hard to explain that. The sheer volume of information involved overwhelms us. Humans are not very smart, and the trains of thought that lead to reality are hard for meat brains to follow. So popular accounts often fall to the temptation to appeal to authority, and fail to tell the longer but more compelling story of why we really ought to believe these conclusions.
Popular science often is a religion. Actual science is not.
The impulse to reject the pseudo-religious authority of popular science is a good scientific impulse. You have to wait for the answer, though, and listen, and think. There really is a good answer.
To be a scientist you need, first of all, the hard-nosed scepticism of a used car buyer. Secondly, you need patience. You have to be willing to look and listen to a lot of stuff, and thresh it through, and not expect truth to be a conveniently packaged soundbite. Your jumped-up-monkey brain has pathetically small working memory. You are trying to follow God's thoughts, and God isn't YouTube. God makes things to work, not to be easy for you.
I have always thought of science as a method of inquiry. I don't understand how actual science is set against religion in this way. It seems to me to spring from ignorance and fear.
