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Neil Tysons warning to America
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RE: Neil Tysons warning to America
(October 8, 2012 at 10:27 pm)Rayaan Wrote:


Perhaps there were other reasons, but knowledge dies pretty violently under a theocracy. First, there are the dark ages. Then, there was the situation with the taliban preventing females from attending school and lacing everything with an unhealthy dose of Islamic extremism. Any religion, when strictly enforced, will squelch the knowledge of the populace. Doesn't it ever occur to moderate theists that the people who are doing crazy things are only doing them because they are more devoted to the religion than they are? What does it say about the fundamentals of a religion when the ones who most strictly adhere to them, the fundamentalists, are the crazy ones?

(Note: I say Islamic extremism, rather than fundamentalism. I do not know enough about Islam to say if these actions are condoned or condemned by the koran. Now, if it's anything like the bible, then...)
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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Neil Tysons warning to America - by Justtristo - October 8, 2012 at 7:44 am
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by Nine - October 8, 2012 at 7:51 am
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by DeistPaladin - October 8, 2012 at 8:31 am
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by thesummerqueen - October 8, 2012 at 11:46 am
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by pocaracas - October 8, 2012 at 12:00 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by LastPoet - October 8, 2012 at 12:03 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by Justtristo - October 8, 2012 at 9:31 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by Darkstar - October 8, 2012 at 10:14 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by Minimalist - October 8, 2012 at 12:04 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by thesummerqueen - October 8, 2012 at 12:05 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by Cyberman - October 8, 2012 at 12:51 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by Minimalist - October 8, 2012 at 10:21 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by Darkstar - October 8, 2012 at 10:26 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by Rayaan - October 8, 2012 at 10:27 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by Darkstar - October 8, 2012 at 10:34 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by Minimalist - October 8, 2012 at 11:07 pm
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by thesummerqueen - October 9, 2012 at 7:03 am
RE: Neil Tysons warning to America - by KichigaiNeko - October 9, 2012 at 7:15 am

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