I hate to say it, but I’ve been recently re-convinced that people like you and I live in a bubble. Most people are adamantly religious in the US if you start to

I hate to say it, but I’ve been recently re-convinced that people like you and I live in a bubble. Most people are adamantly religious in the US if you start to dig down. I knew this when I was a reckless atheist teenager adamant about the beauty of evolution, but after surrounding myself with like-minded people for a decade, my natural tendency to give people the benefit of the doubt relapsed over that bit of my established world-view. It was only recently, when I took an astronomy class for fun and I started to talk to more people about timelines and aspects of the universe that excite me, but don’t jive with religious views so well, that I remembered this sad fact. It honestly makes it harder to hold onto any hope that the human race can reason itself out of the corner it’s worked itself into. :-(