Part of Your Religion, Huh? Prove It!
I am a bit of a US Constitution geek, I must admit. I am absolutely fascinated and moved by it. I have to confess also that I cried during the theatrical presentation at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia when I visited there one summer. A single actor surrounded by a series of 360 degree projections explaining the massive human social innovation embodied in a document named the Constitution and its amendments, known as the Bill of Rights. This was groundbreaking stuff in human historical terms. Never before seen on the planet Earth. The kids are now going to run the candy store, folks. People had been fighting for freedom across the globe for hundreds of years already by this point, yes. But this was the first time a new government had attempted to build their own egalitarian, democratic country, governed by the people, from the foundation up. Think of that for a moment. Imagine that point of time in...