RE: New study finds atheists/agnostics "the most knowledgeable" about religion.
September 29, 2010 at 2:27 am
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2010 at 1:10 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(September 28, 2010 at 9:03 am)theVOID Wrote: No surprises here:I think that about sums it up entirely, but I also come here with some video support of a recent newscast from the Young Turks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM6oO4ySyJQ&feature=sub
I didn't realize that Cenk was an Agnostic (though I suspected it from things he has said before) but I find little to disagree with his assessments on the topic but a number of interesting points were brougth up.
The whole thing is very interesting, either way, but I have little else to say about it.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
