I don’t know how many of you remember Flip Wilson. He was a very popular comedian, becoming internationally known in the early 1970’s. He was hilarious and an acute observational comedian that would, when telling a story on himself, something funny, but supposedly bad, would say, The Devil made me do it. Is it possible that all the things we as individuals do, not following scripture, as caused by a malevolent being?
I just can’t seem to get away from it. I’ve mostly stopped watching any news on television, but still, here on the Internet, it persists. It’s all the shrieking about the aceedence of the 5th conservative justice to the Supreme Court. It’s time to get over it; It’s done.
As I often say here, atheists are a tiny proportion of our population. In the United States, we amount to just 3.1% of a country with 320-plus million people. Yes, you all know that and we are slowly increasing in the last decade, but we are still not large enough to be of any real consequence within society.
I think we’ve all made what may be considered poor decisions in our lives. At the time, the decision may have appeared to be the best at the time. We may even have given considerable thought beforehand. Then, things change, as they eventually do, and that decision was probably not the best one to make at the time.
What will be the future of religious freedom in America since the confirmation of (now) Justice Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court? It’s uncertain, no matter what anyone has read, but it’s clear that Justice Kavanaugh is an advocate for it. Continue reading