I had almost believed, or at least had hoped, that as the obvious mythology of revealed religion waned and evaporated, it would be replaced by rational thought and an absence of absurd certainties. That, unfortunately, is not what is taking place today.
Politics has apparently absorbed the fervor of religion and the left now assumes an absolute infallibility. So we see prominent far-left Democrats actually promoting political inquisitions that are based on an unquestioned certitude, on quasi-moral religious positions at their core. You are not only in error if you disagree with them, you are morally beyond the pale, a heretic. You should be shunned and reviled.
They are after our modern-day Giordano Brunos once again. They are hysterical and ruthless, mentally unbalanced, smug and exceedingly dangerous. They are lighting up center square fires in their minds. The auto da fe is back.
Euripides was right. The irrational is always with us. You can chase it out of the city but you can’t abolish it, and in the end, sooner or later, you have to learn to live with it, difficult as that may be.
Vincent Torlini
Atlantic City