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Jonathan:

Now, as some have pointed out, their theology may not have been sound (do all world religions really teach the same Truth?) and the metaphysic behind the Declaration may be unprovable, but the Founders’ formulation did lay very solid ground for the Founding of liberal democracy in general, the United States in particular. Given that liberal democracies produce for those nations which embrace its ideals, an abundance of, in Allan Bloom’s words, “peace, gentleness, prosperity, productivity” and, I might add, “pluralism,” I believe such ideals, in the abstract, are worth defending with a religious zeal, as though they were the Gospel, regardless of whether they can be falsified in a scientific hypothesis as such.

Do you seriously intend to claim that a doctrine admittedly false (or “unprovable”) should be zealously defended, in the face of the evidence, if it might be politically expedient to have lots of people to believe in it?