Tag: America's Founders

• America A Christian Nation? God Forbid!

  Fundamental religious faith and rule-of-law democracy are mutually exclusive propositions. Fundamental faith demands unthinking fealty. Rule of law democracy demands that we think. While the men who wrote America’s founding documents were all Christians of one stripe or another, Deism “subverted orthodox Christianity“. Many of America’s founders practiced a brand of Christianity modern American Christians…

  A L Katz

  October 6, 2022

  Atheism, Branding, Culture, Magical Thinking, Rule of Law

  America's Founders, Catholic, Christianity, Deism, Dogma, Fundamentalism, George Washiington, Jehovah's Witness, Mormons, Roe v Wade, Scientology, Supreme Court

• The Ravages Of Magical Thinking

  Think magical thinking isn’t potent? Magical thinking is threatening our democracy in real time! Left unchecked, it will bring down the greatest experiment ever in human self government. To be fair, magical thinking now threatens lots of the world. Maybe it just feels like the bulk of its focus is here. Right wingers don’t look…

  A L Katz

  July 23, 2022

  Atheism, Corruption, Culture, Freedom, Magical Thinking, Racism, Religion, Spirituality

  All Men Are Created Equal, America's Founders, Conservatism, Data point, Deist, French Enlightenment, Magical Thinking, Originalism, Oz, Randy Lovejoy, Self Government, Tikkun Olam, White Supremacists