From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jun 17 2000 - 22:26:43 MDT
>From: GBurch1@aol.com
>To me, the big question is whether religion as a powerful tribal identifier
>will persist into the age of nano-abundance. Given the large numbers of
>people here in the U.S. who happily enjoy the fruits of science and
>technology, while blithely espousing primitive religious beliefs, I can't
>see
>that we can expect a "withering away of the faith". Nano-enabled religious
>fundamentalism is among my two or three worst nightmares for the 21st
>century.
Religious fundamentalism is fear No. 1 to me. If anything ruins the party
of the future, my money says it will be religion.
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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