Trick question: How do you offset the whirlwinds, windmills, and tornadoes of lies from a Republican presidential candidate, running mate, and from all members of their party -- people who hate 'Gummint,' want to drown it in a bathtub, yet are desperate, just dying to run the whole show, including YOUR life?
Trick answer: You bring in bigger, bolder, brighter, and broader lies for distraction and comparative perspective -- you bring in religion and other such long-inflamed sores and assorted soreheads for diversion.
Now, before you light up like the Griswold's house finally does in National Lampoon's "Christmas Vacation," imperiling resources at the regional nuclear plant, most people -- even your idiot servant here -- acknowledge some creative force in the universe larger than themselves.
Some people name it Universe, some call it The Grand Design, some label it and leave it as a vaguely defined Spirit. Others roll up their sleeves and become creative, as in National Lampoon's spoof of Les Crane's Desiderata, called Deteriorata, in which the name badges Hairy Thunderer and Cosmic Muffin are supplied.
Still others take it way over the top, providing an avalanche of details and information which, like slowly rotating clouds of gasses in space, eventually coalesce, condense, and evolve around a central core, thereby constituting religion.
Believe what you will. I have no beef about any of it until someone tries to force those beliefs on someone else, or until someone -- be it a group representative or an individual -- drags those beliefs into the public square and insists those beliefs be made mandatory law binding on all.
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