Rendering unto Caesar: The Terrorism of Superstition

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

There are people who contend that politics and superstition should be separated. Certainly, the world would be a better place if superstitious people simply went about their own personal affairs and stopped meddling in the private lives of their neighbors, but that's not going to happen anytime soon. The superstitious are terrified that if they don't terrorize their neighbors, they will suffer for eternity.

Some will argue that the Constitution guarantees the right of people to be superstitious, but that's no reason to appease their superstitions. It is one thing for the superstitious to terrorize their own children and quite a different matter for them to terrorize their neighbors. They even go so far as having their children terrorize the neighbor kids. This kind of conduct is vicious and brutal.

Superstition belongs to Caesar. It enslaves an entire population in a mental prison of fear and ignorance. People who reject superstition cannot ignore the cruelty of the superstitious.

What do you do to shelter your loved ones from the rabid terrorism of superstition?

Comments

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

And I'll ask another question here-Marxism has created an entire methodology that encompasses all aspects of the world. It can create its own intellectuals within that methodology who while I would vehemently disagree with them I would easily say they are equally learned to me.

Islam also has its own methodology and has been deeply involved in and supportive of learning since the West went Christian and for a long time was far more humanistic than the West was and remained such until the West forcibly shoved Christianity and its science down their throats.

Is what you term science really scientific or is it the *liberal democratic* definition in which case all you're doing is cultural imperialism with a robe and a cap?