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FAITH-BASED HOOEY!

Faith-based hooey!  There was once a joke that circulated around a number of Catholic schools and found traction.  Little Johnny sat in the back of his fourth-grade class.  The nun running the class asked the students before her if any of them understood what faith was.  Johnny instantly shot up his hand.  The nun frowned, as Johnny was a known troublesome student, but since nobody else raised a hand, she called on him.  “Faith is believing in something you know isn’t really true.”

That small piece of humor engenders a lot more depth in considering many actions that seem to explain some of the idiot-seeming decisions so many are making today.  Foxconn, the whole mess from beginning to end (and the nightmare of this rotten Taiwanese company is far from over), costing so many people so much pain and the communities and state so much money to produce nothing was ‘faith-based,’ just as canceling the already federally funded high-speed rail, and the entire anti-vax movement.

A great part of the nation has come to believe in things they know not to be true.  So many republicans repudiate the insurrection of January 6th, even though most of them were there, were threatened, and got lucky enough to survive unhurt.  The entire movement behind the ‘stop the steal’ campaign is blatantly a case of believing in something you know is not true.  Why is all this going on in so many ways and leading so many of our great population right towards brutal cliffs of scientifically proved disaster?

A very young man, now on trial, came to Kenosha from Illinois, armed with an assault rifle and, even though underage to possess such a killing weapon, shot two Wisconsin young men to death and badly wounded a third.  That there is any question about how awful his conduct was at all is faith-based.  Not religiously faith-based, but faith in things that are knowably untrue and potentially fatal to so many people who celebrate believing in such nonsense.

The woman who backed Foxconn is actually running for governor of Wisconsin.  The senator who wildly advertised and ballyhooed Foxconn is running again for his senatorial seat.  Why do these people have any support at all can only be explained by faith-based decisions by a public so wounded by Internet and mass media disinformation that its anger is exposed by being deliberately stupid?

There is also another area to be covered under the title of this article;
Faith-Based-Hooey and that is vaccines.  The people failing to get vaccinated, especially after the vaccines have proven to be about the safest medication you can take in this world, and the results have gone through a strainer using literally billions of subjects, are not discussed as being full of hooey by the media or even most of the major purveyors of communications on the Internet and television, is shocking.  The virus is reacting to the vaccines just as the scientists predicted; it is going after those who remain unvaccinated.  By getting vaccinated, how many people might you save, including yourself (oh, family members, loved ones, neighbors and so many more).

 

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