Joanna
Carl Remick wrote:
>> 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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