BCS wrote:
And it's not just in theology that I find this a problem; take a look at the (not unbiased) documetery Expelled (http://www.expelledthemovie.com), people are getting ostrosized for questionig the party line on evolution. Some of these people aren't even getting past "maybe" without getting shot down.
This is hardly limited to religious beliefs. It happens with political correctness, too. Look at the recent slashdot article where Dyson dares to question global warming: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/28/1558225
My own theory is that the shriller a person cries to suppress "wrong" beliefs, the more that person fears their own beliefs might be the ones that are wrong.
Or perhaps everyone just enjoys a public stoning now and then :-(
