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

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Uhm, what do you mean there's no empirical proof for the existence of Confucius? I mean, you can then make the case that we have no proof for the existence of *anyone* a few thousand years ago.

Cause, uhm, there are a good number of records about the Kung Fu Ze, or Kongzi or Confucius or whatever the hell ya wanna call the now-dead man.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

erm, nevermind me. i need coffee.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

That's the point I'm making. It seems to me he's heading for a Jesus never existed argument. Which is all fine and good until you realize by that logic the only thing that speaks of the Ancient world then is Archaeology. Which the Jesus never existed crowd will probably move next to claiming all that is just hoaxes.