Joanna
Carl Remick wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> But there you are: Bush and his crew of Mayberry Machiavellis wouldn't
> be in power now if not for the tractable legions of the nation's
> faithful, history's most numinous useful idiots, who were perfectly
> willing to believe GWB & Co.'s claim to be doing God's work.
>
> Carl
>
>> 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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