In my naivety, for many years I thought non-believers were those who did not believe in God (more specifically, originally, in a Christian God). However, as I look around today's world, the non-believers cover a multitude of events and subjects to hold up civilization's advances, enlightenment, and opportunity to allow history to prevent the future from making the same mistakes.
Sometimes it is more difficult to figure out where the greatest dangers lie. Is it more dangerous to believe everything you hear from Rush Limbaugh? Non-believers did not accept a book several years ago that listed what he said (on the left page) and the truth and references to prove that truth (on the right page). Politicians in places of power, like Michelle Bachman, are a threat to our Democracy. She denies the efficacy of the Constitution.
What do we do with people who deny evolution, though science is pretty clear it is no longer a theory but a reality of Nature? On the other side are the believers of Roswell aliens having landed.
The deniers of the Holocaust are plentiful; and, believers that 9/11 was perpetrated and carried out by our own government exist.
There are deniers of Bosnian genocide. Denialism is a current plague in our country and elsewhere. Time is wasted in pointless debates where pseudo-'facts' are bandied and only serve to obfuscate any serious discussion points.
Equal to those denials above is destructiveness to morale everywhere in these trying times by negative people, the gloom and doomers, the people whose eyesight does not take them to the end of the tunnel, no matter what facts they are given. At the moment, most of these seem to be Republicans and we can only hope the next election will drop a few of these lock-step voters who seem to have no mind of their own or are totally dependent on the 'in numbers there is strength' so that they dare not go against their leaders.
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