Religion In Public Life

 https://x.com/johnlefevre/status/2072042006667297058?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2223793/treasury-ditch-maths-test-increase

" The UK Treasury quietly scrapped its numeracy test because basic math was a "hurdle" for minority candidates. Let that sink in. The people in charge of the nation’s money, debt, taxes, and economic policy decided that competence in numbers was problematic. This isn’t diversity. This is institutional self-sabotage."

 

 Heaven forbid that those employed by the agency in charge of the financial system of the UK understand math.

 https://x.com/infantrydort/status/2071684766001512615?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Communism has always appealed because it offers a morally simple answer to an impossibly complex human problem. >Life is unfair. >Therefore someone must be guilty. >If we punish the guilty, justice will follow. It replaces responsibility with resentment. Most importantly, it tells ordinary people they can become virtuous without becoming better. That is why it returns every generation. Not because it works, but because it flatters. History’s warning is not that these ideas begin with prison camps. They begin with moral certainty and the belief that society can be perfected if only the “right” people are given enough power to identify the guilty and reorganize everyone else’s lives. Today, that temptation is more dangerous than ever. Never before have governments and institutions possessed so much data, so many surveillance tools, so much influence over information, and such extraordinary capacity to shape public life at scale. Every generation inherits more powerful instruments than the last. Whether those instruments preserve liberty or erode it depends on the ideas guiding the hands that wield them. The lesson of the last century is not merely that communism failed. It is that no society is immune from believing that concentrating power in pursuit of moral perfection will finally succeed. History has already rendered its verdict; 100 million+ dead. Our responsibility is to remember it before we convince ourselves that this time will be different.""

 https://x.com/natefriedman97/status/2071666936639869215?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "I exposed the Islamic takeover of New Jersey. The mayor of Paterson has renamed his city "the capital of Palestine in America." Main Street is now Palestine Way. I went there to ask questions about what they truly want. I'm kicked out of one of the biggest mosques in America within minutes of asking about a sheikh there who did a sermon for former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Mosque security tails me in a golf cart filming my license plate off the property. I later uncover that the mosque has 3 connections to Hamas. In the video, I go into a barbershop and immediately am asked "are you a Jew? Are you a Zionist?" before being slammed out the door under a window with a t shirt that says "Jews Did 9/11" and a photo of Sinwar, the architect of October 7th, 1200 people were killed that day including 46 Americans and Saleem honors him. I try to interview more people but most can't speak English. A man tells me "if you walk down Main Street it's like Ramallah." The mayor has declared Paterson the sister city of Ramallah. The streets are empty at 1:30pm on a Friday because everyone is at the mosque. This is a 30 min drive from NYC."

 https://x.com/sarahsalviander/status/2071668533646315748?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "You can't squash the religious impulse. If you remove God, it will just manifest in other ways. In secular religion, there is abundant guilt and atonement, but little love and forgiveness. The rituals of atonement are harsh, sometimes to the point of death. Mercy? You deserve no mercy. The Earth will not take the punishment for your sins as Christ did. You will. You are the sacrifice for the sins of humankind. If you don't know what this is about: France has already recorded 1,000 excess deaths due to the recent record-breaking heat wave. The use of AC has been politicized in Europe to the point that that most everyone, including vulnerable people, are discouraged from using it even as conditions become intolerable. Why? Because of carbon emissions. Even as China releases 2x more emissions than the entire EU, the EU must sacrifice. You can't convince me this isn't pagan religion without the supernatural."