From: Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Aug 28 1999 - 19:09:24 MDT
--- Clint O'Dell <clintodell@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Allowing children to be raised by teaching belief as
> fact has very dangerous
> side effects. Besides creating generation after
> generation of ignoramuses
> and programmed thinkers progress will halt or at
> least come to a very small
> crawl. In fact, if too many people decide to
> believe based on what they
> were raised to believe we would be thrown back into
> the dark ages! Wars are
> fought over what people "believe".
>
> It's time to stop the nonsense and start raising
> generations of free
> thinkers. Freedom FROM religion! Not freedom of
> religion.
>
As an extropian who believes in an open society, I say live and let
live. Those who are burdened by irrational belief systems are simply
those who compete less effectively. In the end, their silly beliefs
will disappear. I would say, not freedom from religion, but rather
freedom from oppresive government!! The only way to increase the speed
of technological change is to foster an open, dynamic society which
allows kooks in Kansas to raise their children to be imbeciles (without
stealing anyone's earnings) as well as allow me to teach my son that
god is just pretend.
===
Terry Donaghe: terry@donaghe.com
http://www.donaghe.com
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams
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