[lbo-talk] The God Delusion

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 22 19:10:33 PDT 2006



>From: joanna <123hop at comcast.net>
>
>Right now, we don't look too good. Neither the left with "religion is
>idiocy" nor the right with their Pat Robertsons.

I don't see any equivalence there at all. The leading threat to world peace right now is militant religion not militant atheism. I used to think of religion as harmless idiocy and now view it as malignant idiocy. Religion encourages the kind of stupefying credulousness that underlies contemporary America's worst failings -- e.g., a willingness to believe that there were WMDs in Iraq when there was no evidence for that claim, or a willingness to believe that "God will provide" instead of adopting effective social benefit programs. Religion is glorified dementia.

Carl

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