On Aug 31, 2005, at 12:48 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
I think we can take a lesson from history here in the form of the US
"war on drugs", which has been an expensive and miserable failure.
Any student of human nature would have predicted that.
If you're of the mindset that religiosity is addictive, that its
effects on the human animal are analogous to drugs, I think the
conclusion is inescapable. Banning religion won't help a single iota.
Smoking is getting banned in more and more places and people are going
along with that. A generation ago the majority smoked. Now the
majority (in the USA) are religious. I hope that goes the way of
smoking.
You don't really think we're going to see an end to tobacco use in the
human species, do you? That's simply not going to happen. As long as
intoxicants exist, humans will cultivate and consume them.
Actually a better way of putting it might be: As long as humans exist,
we will continue to cultivate and consume intoxicants.
There is no hope that your ideas regarding banning religion will ever
see fruition. Give up on the idea now and pursue something more likely
to bear fruit, such as slowly and certainly deprogramming others by
showing how it's possible to be a rational atheist. If religion ever
does go away it will be because we've moved beyond it, much as we've
(for the most part) moved beyond alchemy. Absolutely no judicial fiat
will ever cause religion to vanish.
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Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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