> For me, Christian faith is not some political ideology Organized religion is pervasively political. It is literally about delegating resource management and

> For me, Christian faith is not some political ideology Organized religion is pervasively political. It is literally about delegating resource management and community gatekeeping to a class of upstanding parishers and clergy. In modern societies, that class is symbiotic with the ambient social political framework. That's why we get the whole "Jesus and guns" nonsense - Christianity as a belief system says nothing about guns, but it is vital for the symbiotes, and suddenly guns become a Christian thing; instead of the original "turn the other cheek", we arrive at a fetish of doing harm to others. (*) (*) Proper disclosure, I am not American and not Christian. > In the earliest years of the Scientific Revolution, leaders like Galileo and Robert Boyle wrote extensively about their faith. Galileo was a client of and then oppressed by Christian clergy. While I am sure Christianity helped shape his scientific persona, Christianity as a performed religion was a negative factor in him being able to communicate the heliocentric theory and collaborate with his peers. Overall: I think the author lives in an ideological ivory tower, without giving a moment's thought to the fact that they are promoting an ideology that's pragmatically used to embellish the waste of resources and lives of people quite directly in her plain view. I cannot condone this attitude.