Walter Bright wrote: > 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 :-(
All I said was that piece of fish was good enough for Jehovah... -- Daniel
