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Protecting Our Minds from Predator Algorithms and Polluted Information

 

It is not clear what Americans mean when they talk about God. Yet references to God are everywhere. It is the rare presidential speech that doesn’t end with “God bless America.” The phrase is all over bumper stickers and billboards. The Pledge of Allegiance informs us that we are “one nation under God,” and U.S. currency assures us that “in God we trust.” Yet the philosopher Charles Taylor offers an important caveat. “Belief in God,” he writes, “isn’t quite the same thing in 1500 and 2000.” The main difference is that belief in God used to be assumed. Now, it is consciously chosen. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/328c67cb89c0/protecting-our-minds-from-predator-algorithms-and-polluted-information


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