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Pelosi blurring reality by extolling morality as a valid construction of reality

To a skeptical cosmologist, the biblical account of creation may seem like a primitive folktale.

To a fundamentalist who believes that God created the world in six days in approximately 3761 b.c.e., the scientific debate over whether the big bang took place 15 or 13.7 billion years ago is irrelevant.

More open-minded scientists who maintain a sense of wonder about nature and religious thinkers acknowledge the validity of the other realm of discourse but insist that the boundary between the two should not be blurred: science deals with empirical facts and falsifiable theory while religion focuses on the meaning of life and moral values.

So we come to Pelosi and similar moral spouting Politicians,  many thinkers regard Morality as a myth i a story, imagined or true, that helps us make our experience comprehensible by offering a construction of reality
 

A myth is a story, the morality of say a wall,  imagined or true, that helps us make our experience comprehensible by offering a construction of reality. For some believers it is a life belt  a narrative that wrests order from chaos.

We are not content to see events as unconnected, as inexplicable. We crave to understand the underlying order in the world. A myth tells us why things are the way they are and where they came from. Such an account is not only comfortable for believers it is ,assuring, and socially useful, as a social lubricant it is  essential. For some, without a myth, there is no meaning or purpose to life, say the credulous.  There is just vast emptiness they claim, like the man hanging by his fingertips from the cliff edge myths
are especially beneficial in desperate times.


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