[lbo-talk] The God Delusion

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Oct 22 20:16:25 PDT 2006


The leading threat to world peace right now is not religious. The people who surround Bush are not religious, and this regime is the leading threat to world peace.

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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