From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Fri Oct 22 1999 - 07:33:21 MDT
From: Micah Redding <redding_l@FHU.EDU>
>I have noticed that many people on this list engage in "religion
>bashing". Most of the accusations against religion on this list
>are unfounded or unfair. For example, ridiculing "faith" as belief
>in something regardless of proof purposely ignores the meaning
>most people use for the word. Not to say that most religious
>people aren't ignorant, but it's not justified to condemn all
>religion based on its adherrents. You couldn't dismiss
>extropianism, for example, just because no one has been completely
>extropist.
The first thing religions started doing after they were invented is
to start bashing science, a process that continues to the present
day. And Scientists have never threatened elderly theologians with
torture, nor burned them literally at the stake. Religious leaders
have done both...
Religion is to be feared, and must never be allowed to gain the
upper hand in human society...
We remember Galileo and Giordono Bruno.....
Brian
Member, Extropy Institute, www.extropy.org
Life Extension Foundation, www.lef.org
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