(November 19, 2015 at 4:30 am)robvalue Wrote: Vic: I agree, irrational nonsense will continue in one form or another. But the hold it has over people, and society in general, has a lot of potential for decreasing. And I feel very confident that it will, in secular nations.
It has. Look at Norway and Sweden. They may have an unhealthy obsession with Death Metal and Eurovision Pop, but other than that - they seem to be doing great, even if you don't compare them to radical theocracies, full of desperate people looking for something to blow to pieces.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
