Re: OT: Civil War Narrowly Averted in Schiavo Case

Clarence_A wrote:

> > A majority of the people are creationists, many of them
> > fanatically convinced that we should live in a theocracy.

> Have we learned nothing From Plato, Aristotle,
> Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and other learned men?
> Must we be burdened by ignorance and superstition forever?
> Can this be the ultimate cause of the failure of the Human
> condition?

Old traditions, social processes, have very strong conservative
mechanisms to protect the system, to persecute and harass critics and
uphold the fear of God in people.

If their old ideologies are being torn down, by science and rational
arguments, they simply invent new ideologies to justify their
lifestyle and all the violence needed to uphold it.

> --
> A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
> where fifty-one percent of the people may
> take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
> Thomas Jefferson


The only reasonable alternative to theocratic dictatorship is democracy.

But maybe you are thinking about the false democracy, politics hijacked
by corporate interests.


--
Roger J.
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