I don't care if a person thinks we're living in the Matrix, or that God created the world in 6 days 5000 years ago, or that the world exists on a giant tortoise

I don't care if a person thinks we're living in the Matrix, or that God created the world in 6 days 5000 years ago, or that the world exists on a giant tortoise shell. People can believe whatever bullshit they want. I do have a problem when that shit starts informing policy decisions. It's the difference between "I believe God created the world for man to live in" and "I believe God created the world for man to live in, so I'll pollute that shit as much as I damn well please". The problem is that people vote for politicians who support policies steeped in bad science, or no science at all, because they don't know science or, even worse, they are willfully ignorant of it. No matter how convincing the argument that we're living in a simulated universe is, or how much a person truly believes in God, until it has a measurable effect on the real world, such a belief has no place in the arena of public policy.