I guess not<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Turns out Superman is renouncing his American citizenship.\u00a0 When comic books are rushing to the post-American dream, you know it\u2019s bad.\u00a0 But this is what happens.\u00a0 America, like Europe in the last century and a half, has thrown religion out the window.\u00a0 Unfortunately, us humans have a innate tendency to want to worship something, and want to value some dogma as exclusive truth that demands conformity.\u00a0 A dogma upon which all other truths are based.\u00a0 In the absence of other options, it looks like politics has become the religion of choice.\u00a0 And it appears to touch on every part of society, even more than religion ever did.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t anything just be fun anymore?\u00a0 I guess not.\u00a0\u00a0Turns out Superman is renouncing his American citizenship.\u00a0 When comic books are rushing to the post-American dream, you know it\u2019s bad.\u00a0 But this is what happens.\u00a0 America, like Europe in the last century and a half, has thrown religion out the window.\u00a0 Unfortunately, us humans have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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