The religious should be shot before the kill the rest of us; read Sam Harris' The End of Faith if you haven't. The US is the laughing-stock of the world and its kids are being short-changed while growing stupider in relation to the rest of humankind. But what do you expect when we have bigotry enthroned? This country is a horror.
- Alan On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Ryan Whyte wrote:
now the 'intelligent design' debate is on in the US and something like 2/3rds of americans think creationism should be taught in schools; meanwhile, Bush wants to spend billions going to the moon to build roads there, as if the war and hurricane cleanup weren't costly enough and the gap between rich and poor not a shameful howling chasm. (not that canada is any better, today I read that we've decided to share nuclear technology with, wait for it...India, just as the liberals announce no new money for aboriginal health and communities. and we're just itching to ramp up trade with China, that bastion of freedoms). technofetishism and religion go hand in hand, and our leaders evidently wish to kill us all on the way to destroying our ability to reason. Michael Ignatief advises the democrats, possibly the most useless party in the history of mankind, not to talk down to religious folks. but that would require a saintliness I for one do not possess....
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