WOTM: Moral Collapse

And yet the US has way more poverty, way more violence, and way less health care than secularized Western Europe.

Gotta watch this. But I know it's great.👍🏼💙💖💙💝💙🥰✌

Do they not see the ongoing moral collapse led by evangelical favorite DJT

Since believers believe there’s a “ghost in the machine,” they fail to recognize that our minds, emotions, and morals are actually a product of our brains naturally selected by evolution —not what some Gawd dictates. I always remember the (inhumane!) experiment on macaques that Carl Sagan described: "In a laboratory setting, macaques were fed if they were willing to pull a chain and electrically shock an unrelated macaque whose agony was in plain view through a one-way mirror. Otherwise, they starved. After learning the ropes, the monkeys frequently refused to pull the chain; in one experiment only 13% would do so -- 87% preferred to go hungry. One macaque went without food for nearly two weeks rather than hurt its fellow.” Would 87% of most humans do the same? I seriously doubt it. Indeed, the war god of Abraham would have them pull the chain without blinking an eye. As Sagan then adds: "By conventional human standards, these macaques —who have never gone to Sunday school, never heard of the Ten Commandments, never squirmed through a single junior high school civics lesson— seem exemplary in their moral grounding and their courageous resistance to evil."