(February 12, 2013 at 5:30 pm)Chuck Wrote: I think people really need to learn meaning of concepts like "totalitarian", "dogma of infallibility", and put them in some reality based perspective before using them willy nilly. They most emphatically do not apply to the government in china today.
Thanks for correcting my misconceptions.
I guess I was speaking more generally about totalitarian states.
I will not speak specifically about modern China until I have more info.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
