The Digitized Culture Wars
The author doesn&#x27;t quite put it in one sentence, perhaps because they feel that it would commit them to a side, but I notice that they lay out all the ingredients for the thesis that one side of the culture wars is fueled by a desire to impose Christian moral authority upon the USA. Such authority has been undermined by a pair of understandable happenstances: It happens that empiricism and the scientific method are simply better at making predictions about the world than priestly divination, and it also happens that the abuses and frauds committed behind church doors keep coming to light.<p>I wonder to what degree some participants in the culture war are trying to simply communicate the idea that we do not need a deity to deliver unto us tablets of moral rules, and running up against folks who cannot imagine existence without Jehovah.