The caption under a Reuters photo accompanying an anti-Christian article reads: The power of religion in the US defies logic and science.
Then there is this:
“I simply don’t know how so many Americans have remained impervious to evolution, 162 years after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species and why two-thirds of the population still believe in God while the rest of the western world has largely secularized, adhering to science rather than belief.”
This is a pull quote from an op-ed written by Alan Kohler in The New Daily. The headline of this article was, “Pray for America as Radical Christian Right Vies for Power.” His bio lists him as an “Award-winning business journalist.” It also notes that he is “Editor in Chief of The Eureka Report, and an ABC regular” who writes twice weekly for The New Daily.
In the article Kohler stated that he spent his time over the 2020 Christmas holiday season reading in an attempt to understand “why America is still largely a fundamentalist Christian nation, having started life as a secular Enlightenment project in 1776.”
In an attempt to back up that point of view he said, “It’s true that the place was settled 200 years earlier by deeply religious Puritans, but neither the US Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence mentions God, and the framers of the Constitution saw themselves as Enlightenment thinkers, inspired by Voltaire and Hume among others to entrench the separation of church and state.”
You would think that someone as supposedly intelligent at Mr. Kohler would be better informed. But his comments show just how clueless he is.
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