Consciousness and the End of the War Between Science and Religion

There's a bigger picture here. This "war" isn't just about science and faith. It's what we do. Whenever there are differences, we take whatever side we're on, hoist it up on the truth pedestal and hurl expletives at the other side. If they have the nerve to hurl back it can get nasty.



Science and religion, party politics, race, immigration, standard of living, anything where our differences are either obvious or simply perceived triggers our ridiculous "us vs them" mindset and threatens a new civil war.



We live in a country where we are free to believe anything, or nothing, as we wish. But we forget these rights belong to ALL of us. We forget that we're all in this together... neighbors trying to live our lives the best we can. We forget the lessons we should have learned throughout our history. Tolerance is the way we've solved our problems. Intolerance makes everything worse. It threatens the very fabric of our nation.
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