Donald Trump and his cronys are ignoring or disobeying so many laws that “laws” are a current big topic today. In addition Christians are joining in for the fun and the profit. (Remember when Christians believed in prophets? Now it is profits.)
One aspect of the topic I want to address is the deliberate misunderstanding of what constitute physical laws by Christians, usually one or more steps removed. (Can you spell indoctrination, boys and girls?) What I mean by this is the Christians themselves didn’t make the mistake I will be decribing, it was made for them by Christian influencers: you know apologists/excusigists, what passes for a cleric today, those folks. The poor, non-thinking Christian has been trained to not process or even question the ideas, so they simply “share” them. (Thanks for sharing!)
Theists often are fed this line of argument: “if there are laws, there must be a lawgiver.” This is true if you are considering legal rules and many famous lawgivers are available in human history as examples: Solon of Ancient Greece, for example.
In 1748, famed philosopher David Hume defined natural laws this way: such a law is “a regularity of past experience projected by the mind to future cases.” Brilliant, that is exactly correct. There have even songs written to display this aspect of nature (♫ “The Sun will come up tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that it will …”) The key words are “a regularity” meaning that we see something happening over and over or over and over in the same way and that becomes a dependable predictor of what the future might bring. (Always “might” in that nothing is certain.)
Hume wasn’t clarifying the misunderstanding (deliberate or not) I address here, Hume was arguing that miracles not only do not happen, they basically they cannot happen. Again, this is not something your church leaders will bring up in their sermons.
There are consequences in carving out a healthy part of people’s mental lives and then banishing questions and logical thinking from it. It spills over into politics, which is how a completely execrable person like our current president, Der Trumpenfűhrer, can be viewed as an instrument of god … for the good of all.
Uncommon Sense 