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Are Christians discriminated against more than those of other faiths?
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RE: Are Christians discriminated against more than those of other faiths?
(December 19, 2010 at 11:42 pm)padraic Wrote: I've never actually seen any evidence to support that claim as a general principle,although I'd be thrilled to see your evidence.

Religions are invented by men for men. They do not cause ignorance or superstition per se. Religion thrives in ignorance and poverty as preconditions. It dwindles with education and affluence.

Although ignorant and stupid people tend to be religious and superstitious,by no mean all religious people are ignorant and superstitious.The flavour of religion seems to be pretty much irrelevant,with the exception of Scientology-which-is-a- confidence-trick-not-a-religion-anyway.Thinking

Evidence for religion breeding ignorance, americans are particularly uninformed, or the causal relationship between the two?

If one define ignorance not as lack of exposure of knowledge, but failure to embrace knowledge in preference to superstition, then religion certainly cause ignorance by inserting into the overall educational environment a set of socially promoted substitutions for real knowledge offered in the educational system, and in addition actively promote a settled complacence in those substitutions. The evidence is the high incidence of doubt and denial about evolution and modern cosmology in this country when educational system itself offers generally adequate basic instruction in these field. Amongst all of the developed world, none exhibit as high a preference for biblical creation over modern scientific cosmology and evolution. I believe America ranks below Islamic turkey in acceptance of nonreligious based cosmology and evolution.
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RE: Are Christians discriminated against more than those of other faiths? - by Anomalocaris - December 20, 2010 at 1:37 am

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