This whole country," says my grandmother evenly, "supports a culture of ignorance and anti-intellectualism which posits that not understanding a phen… - Kate Coyle

I mean, these people really believe what they believe."
"But what they believe is so absurd.

Everyone seems absurdly rich and very drunk. I notice with annoyance that there’s no adherence to modesty here: I see short skirts and plenty of cleavage, bare necks adorned by jewels. I guess if you have enough money, the Church will overlook a selection of your sins.

We could conceivably slow this destruction down, but it would require huge overarching changes in the structure of our society—the kind of change we will never achieve so long as we remain distracted by imaginary acts of God.