The majority does not rule in the US. Instead, they merely get to participate by electing representatives. Even the presidential election is not by majority but by electoral college.

Regions with ignorant populations may elect morons to office, but if those representatives can be educated then there is a good chance they’ll do the right thing. Chances of representatives being willing to do the right thing go up if they feel secure in their job though.

Evidently, science is the “atheist’s religion,” and if they can just tear that down, then everything comes tumbling down around our ears, thereby negating the value of anything we say, including the actual post on this page. After that, we atheists come to our senses and ask Jeebus for guidance.

Science can’t answer these questions? Who cares? Science can’t give me the answers to a lot of things, such as why our country is overrun with asshats (actually the “soft sciences” might be able to, but I digress.) However science is the best method, at our disposal, for understanding the observeable universe. You’re assuming that the inability of science to “prove” everything is synonymous with an inability to prove ANYTHING. Or, for that matter, that science even needs to answer these questions. Both of these are logical fallacies.

Objectively speaking, nothing can provide answers to the questions you presented, because there are no objective answers to these questions. We have to find our own meaning for our existance, even if we choose to find that meaning in the ramblings of a barbaric, nomadic bronze-age tribe.

As for this post–wow, yes, even I’m surprised by these numbers, although, having worked for the Gallup Polls in the past, I can support Glintir’s assertion about the wording of survey questions–they can be and many times are worded to elicit certain responses. I hope that’s the case here. But honestly, I think people in this country are pretty ignorant of their own consitution, and, having always taken their constitutional rights for granted (not having to fight for them,) are largely unaware of what their personal lives would be like if they got their way and these rights disappeared.

Clearly this is because they thrive on lies to feel good about taking big fat zero responsibility for the state of the world, and for doing nothing to make the world a better place. A prime example of such lies is the “promise” of a happy afterlife within which all believers who’ve “suffered” on earth can let go of their mortal chains and bask in the loving glow of the baby jesus.

I hear bullshit tastes like apple pie. Oh yummy!