Antonin Scalia is unfit to serve: A justice who rejects science and the law for religion is of unsound mind: The justice claims to be an originalist, but his real loyalty is to religion and a phony man in the sky

[Machiavelli]

Jeffrey Tayler
Salon
June 14, 2015

Readers of this column already know that faith-derangement syndrome has stricken the highest levels of the executive branch of government, afflicting President Obama and virtually all his potential successors. Now we have evidence that it has spread to the top organ of the judiciary, the Supreme Court.

But first, a clarification. Sufferers of faith-derangement syndrome (FDS) exhibit the following symptoms: unshakable belief in the veracity of manifest absurdities detailed in ancient texts regarding the origins of the cosmos and life on earth; a determination to disseminate said absurdities in educational institutions and via the media; a propensity to enjoin and even enforce (at times using violence) obedience to regulations stipulated in said ancient texts, regardless of their suitability for contemporary circumstances; the conviction that an invisible, omnipresent, omniscient authority (commonly referred to as “God”) directs the course of human and natural events, is vulnerable to propitiation and blandishments, and monitors individual human behavior, including thought processes, with an especially prurient interest in sexual activity.

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[Free Vulcan]

Sounds like the guy has a real God complex, and he pontificates more than the Pope.

[PzLdr]

I LOVE Scalia! His Eighth Amendment take : To be unconstitutional, a method of execution has to be "cruel AND unusual", but if it is only cruel OR unusual, it passes muster, is only surpassed by his Fourth Amendment analysis: You need a warrant OR probable cause for a search. The guy actually reads the language!

As for Tayler, he's a putz!

[jmyrlefuller]

Chronic depression, delusions of moral superiority, antisocial tendencies and the like are symptoms I see in a large number of militant atheists like the author. It seems atheism would be the derangement syndrome.