[FredZarguna]

I'm an atheist with a PhD who was educated in elite schools; my Dad was a social worker and also an atheist. My Mom stayed at home so she could be there when we came back from public school at the end of the day. She had taught eight grades of school in a country school house in the 1930's and she taught me math because the "New Math" of the 1960's was destroying my brain, but she didn't believe in God either. I don't believe in Satan or Anti-Christs, but I do believe in the principles of the Enlightenment and in the idea that the American Founding is part of a struggle for individual liberty against authoritarianism that's been going on for about 40 centuries. Its best weapons are intelligence, truth, and reason, and its enemies are brutal thugs who never really change anything but their faces.

You liberal jackasses may now proceed to your next half-baked theory.

[A Navy Vet]

"...but I do believe in the principles of the Enlightenment and in the idea that the American Founding is part of a struggle for individual liberty against authoritarianism that's been going on for about 40 centuries. Its best weapons are intelligence, truth, and reason, and its enemies are brutal thugs who never really change anything but their faces."

You forgot one very important "weapon"...a weapon. That has ALWAYS been the first and last defense against totalitarianism. Other than that, I completely agree with you.

[dixiechick2000]

As a Christian, new math of the ‘60s almost destroyed my brain, too. ;o)

“Its best weapons are intelligence, truth, and reason, and its enemies are brutal thugs who never really change anything but their faces.”

Bump that!