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[RicROC]

2. faith does not equal fact

What my take on religious people they consider as fact is something they believe by faith. (As I Lutheran I totally relate to this subject of transubstantiation vs real presence vs. something else). Someone who believes in their concept of god and whatever ritual is connected in celebration of that faith, feels that this 'faith' is fact. I have no problem with this if it remains in that etherial arena.

But it seems that some individuals project this same mental construct of faith onto the physical and logical. If they believe, (in their opinion) a condition is true, then their logical conclusion is that the condition is fact. We saw this with covid/corona. If one 'believes' covid is treated with ivermectin, then in their minds, it is a fact that ivermectin is a cure for covid. It doesn't matter what the scientific evidence shows; their belief equals fact, while scientific fact is fantasy. It's not logical for us, though.

We should be concerned about the mental framework used by our representatives in a democratic republic, and yes, judges are our representatives.
We need to know how they assess and analyze a situation.