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When I attended high school and college during the 1950s, about half of all Americans regularly attended church services on Sunday. Today, according to a recent poll, the figure is 22 percent. And another 21 percent of Americans count themselves as being among the “nones,” those who don’t identify with any religion.

“We need a national divorce,” tweeted Marjorie Taylor Greene on President’s Day.

Has there been a politician with a more glaring history of lying than George Santos from Long Island, who in November won a U.S. congressional race? There seems no limit to the fantasies of his mind.

Several years ago, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was preparing to meet teachers to discuss the origins of constitutional government in the United States. After reading about the American South and slavery, he noted to two historians that he read only books by well-known established scholars – but nothing by “revisionists.” Such works were not worth his time, he added. History, once written, was largely factual and static; little of significance remained to be said.

Aficionados of Mount Rushmore have said that October should be designated as the month of Mount Rushmore. The actual carving of the famous monument began October 1927 and was completed in October 1941. Keen observers deem October as the best month in which to view the popular monument that immortalizes presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, but summer is the most popular time for visitors, 2.5 million of whom chose to visit Rushmore last year.

Shakespeare was not the author of his own plays. A Jewish Antichrist would appear to dominate the world. Moses was really Akhenaton. Millions believed the earth was flat long after a spherical earth was proven more than 2,000 years ago. Throughout history, it sometimes appeared that nothing yielded easily to facts.

“God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him.” So wrote German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in the late 19th century; he added that the earth-shaking news had not yet arrived but was on its way.