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RE: How do we slay the dragon?
June 23, 2014 at 6:44 am
(June 22, 2014 at 3:33 pm)professor Wrote: Besides that, just look at China, the religion of Mao (with his face plastered all over that nation) is gone and it is projected there will be more Christians there than in the US in a couple of decades.
That's quite possible, due to the sheer numbers and the likelihood that religion will take hold for a while as a novelty or a way to rebel against the old culture. That, combined with shrinking numbers of Christians in the USA, could eventually lead to China having more Christians in the USA.
Then you'd all need to figure out how many of those are True Christians™.
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RE: How do we slay the dragon?
June 23, 2014 at 8:42 am
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I think the only model with any prospect of success is the "scientific revolution" model, where the old guard die off, and the Young Turks hold more libertine views; and even that model, analogized into this process of eliiminating religion, will require many generations of Young Turks, and still will not eliminate it, but only ameliorate its worst excesses.
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RE: How do we slay the dragon?
June 23, 2014 at 10:31 am
Which book is this? It sounds amazing. Does want/10.
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RE: How do we slay the dragon?
June 23, 2014 at 1:30 pm
We can only hope for the dragon to realise that it is a worm masquerading as dragon.
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RE: How do we slay the dragon?
June 23, 2014 at 4:36 pm
Magic dragon darts? Sword of invincibility? Become what we despise about what xtains have done historically?
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RE: How do we slay the dragon?
June 24, 2014 at 1:57 pm
(June 23, 2014 at 10:31 am)ThePinsir Wrote: Which book is this? It sounds amazing. Does want/10.
Do you mean the Russell book, Pinsir? If so, it's "Why I Am Not A Christian And other essays on religion and related subjects," compiled by Paul Edwards. There's also a great Appendix at the end that summarizes how the Christian inquisitors in the U.S. during the early 1940s banned Russell from teaching mathematics at City College in NYC because of his "immoral character" and for encouraging the "damnable felony of homosexualism."
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