I try not to rationalize these things, and think I’m terribly smart, and instead

I try not to rationalize these things, and think I’m terribly smart, and instead I just look at the evidence – the evidence left behind by abrahamic religions (judaism, christianity, and islam) is tragic – and the evidence of their reformed versions (pseudoscientific marxism/socialism, pseudoscientific social democracy, and pseudo-rational postmodernism) is just as bad.

The abrahamic method of ‘suggestion’ by which one bypasses reason via overloading and conflation, is the worse thing to happen to humanity outside the great plagues (polio, tuberculosis, malaria, bubonic…).

I mean, between the christian dark ages, the jewish inability to hold territory and constant persecution, and the hundreds of millions of dead from islam and communism, not to mention the loss of the great civilizations of north africa, persia, the western roman empire, the byzantine empire, and the indus valley, its hard to imagine which is worse: plagues of the mind or body.

We humans demonstrate all sorts of demand. A lot of what we demand is bad for us. Truth, Excellence, and Beauty among them. But much of what we demand is the comfort of avoiding all efforts at truth excellence and beauty – producing deception, crime, and decay.