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talkpoliticsThere 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?
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?
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Date: 15/6/10 18:49 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 15/6/10 18:53 (UTC)YES.
And point of fact, everyone makes up their own definitions. We do it constantly, based on observation. In fact, only religious FOLLOWERS seem to refuse to make up their own definitions, because they blindly swallow the definitions that someone else invented for them! If the Pope decides to redefine a thousand years of dogma (Vatican II, anyone?), a billion Catholics are technically supposed to follow that blindly. If a megachurch pastor decides to decree that God spoke to him and told him The Way It Is, then his "flock" (how appropriate) will swallow it whole. A Muslim Imam tells women they need to cover themselves head-to-toe, or it's their fault if they get raped, and people believe that shit! How... interesting.
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Date: 15/6/10 19:22 (UTC)And also the religions do not radically overhaul their doctrines so much as they adjust to the modern world.
Tell me, is eugenics really a science or isn't it? It had peer review, experiments, and a full-fledged apparatus to study it. So is it or isn't it, or like religion does science fall in and out of favor in conjunction with politics and society as a whole? Was eugenics and is eugenics still a science or was it simply rejected because the Nazis took it to its logical conclusions?
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