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01-11-2024 9:36 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Percy
01-10-2024 9:36 AM


Percy in Message 1 writes:
In other words, burying someone in facts right off the bat doesn't work.
That's because there are no such things as facts.
Facts are cultural. And the culture of creationism is very different from the culture of science. Creationists have their own facts which are different from the facts of science.
I did not read your linked article, because of the paywall. But it looks as if it is the same thing. The MAGA culture is very different from liberal culture. Perhaps this is also what was involved in The Two Cultures.
It took me a long time to understand this.

Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity

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