(May 11, 2016 at 10:49 am)Ben Davis Wrote: You forgot about the 'Leaders' who are cynically exploiting vulnerable people for political and financial gain.
You're right. One of the difficulties we face is that science challenges us with claims that at first seem counter-intuitive; things hid and barr'd from common sense, that take effort to understand. Or people can follow a demagogue, who will confirm all their naive biases and assure them that however ignorant they are, they're right.
And it seems that religion is increasingly the go-to method for demagoguery. Cause what else is it good for?