Grandma voted for a Fascist?

And here I thought if she were Catholic she’d be sainted.

My grandfather’s brother is no longer with us, but he lived just up the street while I was in his and grandma’s care, and I can’t overstate the importance of a single piece of advice he, my grand uncle, gifted me:

Think for yourself

Why it took til the age of 14 for life to yield this advice is beyond me, it would seem this is something that many people should be encouraged to do from the very start, but the rest of my family never came close.

The only obvious reason why is because they didn’t want me to. I think that’s because most or all of them were dyed-in-the-wool believers.

There’s an excellent quote

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” ― Steven Weinberg