Now, whether Jesus would have told us to become good communists or not, I won’t get into. Wiser philosophies and empiric results have taught us that society functions most prosperously when individual rights to life, liberty, and property are not infringed. The government should only sparingly ever try to take any of those three. In the U.S. we kill too many people, we lock up too many people, and we take away too many things from people. I’m willing to bet that Perry will never argue that God is the solution to locking up too many people and killing too many people with government sanction.

You are correct in that many of us and others would agree with the statement if he replaced “God” with “Science.” The difference is simple: putting our problems in the hands of Science means that our problems would be solved by talented scientists working countless hours towards a common goal. Instead of spending six hours asking something else to solve our problems, like during his prayer day, we would use the best possible information and technology to solve the problems ourselves. Unfortunately the percentage of elected scientists in our government is abysmal so our country has never put problems like this in the hands of Science and has chosen to put it in the hands of those who can argue the loudest.

I can change one word in what Perry said, and you’ll all agree with the statement.

—-

And I think it’s time for us to just hand it over to Science and say, “Science, You’re going to have to fix this.”

I think it’s time for us to use our wisdom and our influence and really put it in Science’s hands. That’s what I’m going to do, and I hope you’ll join me.”

Well, at least here in Texas, it has been more in line with cut everything and pray over the survivors.