Re: Freeman Dyson on heresy



MooseFET wrote:

bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
John Larkin

Perhaps, 50 years from now, there will be monuments to Bush in the
democratic states of Iran and Syria and Saudi Arabia.

LMFAO !

J.L. seems to have lost his mind.


That there will be monuments to Bush - most likely in the form of
smoking craters - is more likely than that any one of those free
states will be democratic, or even as nearly democratic as the current
U.S. of A.

Iran was on the democratic path in the past. Today it is largely a
theocracy but the public would prefer a democracy.

I rather doubt that suggestion. There is a well-educated ~10% of the population
who think that way but they are outnumbered by the other 90% who adhere to older
ways.


It is highly likely that if it is left to do so, it will turn into a democracy
at
some time in the future.

I'm sure it will continue to have Islam at its core though.

Graham


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