A Very Inconvenient Truth: I Wish I Had Better News Than This Moribund Prognosis For "Conservative" "Christianity"

Alan: Here is a very inconvenient Truth.

American conservatives argue -- with NO room for discussion or democratic debate -- that "God said it. I believe it. That settles it."

The math is simple.

If God has communicated The Absolute Truth directly to you -- after all, what does literal interpretation of the bible mean? -- then you are absolutely obliged to contradict any and every assertion, principle, belief or scientific finding that you consider contrary to "God's Truth" as revealed directly to you.

The result is a very subtle form of self-apotheosis.

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