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]

What about eugenics? Prior to the victory of the United Nations over the Axis Powers there was a full-fledged peer review process which accepted eugenics as just one of a branch of sciences related to biology and which treated it to the entire apparatus applied today to modern sciences. There were experiments treated to the whole scientific metholodology.

So do tell me-why is it not a science *now*? Why was it *then*? Is science really as unshakeable as you say it is or can science like religion pick and choose which aspects of itself it wants to include.

And frankly that was the basis of all government prior to the Enlightenment. Nice to know you just dismissed most of human history as superstitious savagery. Vladimir Ulyanov would be so proud of you.