What I need to know now is... who gets the government subsidies for those panels.

Nosferatu + The Stand + The West Wing.

GO.

He's just an idiot. Christianity doesn't help him much tho.

Isn't the outcome of the Enlightenment that challenging experts produces progress, and failing to do so creates epistemological stagnation? It is convenient to trust an expert, but when truth is at issue, only the mountain of evidence suffices to justify trust.