On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:41:19 +0100, Bernard Peek <bap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In message <1210641229.938329@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Michael Ash
><mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>Plus there are plenty of examples of atheistic (or just plain bizzare,
>>what do you call Nazi Germany in this context?) societies displaying all
>>of the bad aspects of religion in this context, as far as ostracizing
>>intelligent people who happen to hold the "wrong" beliefs, forcing
>>scientists to follow the state's Official Truth instead of objective
>>reality, etc.
>>The really odd thing is that the prime example of such atheistic
>>anti-science behavior was also the first country to put a man in space.
>Any sufficiently advanced political ideology is indistinguishable from
>religion - almost.
And any sufficiently avanced religion *or* political ideology, will be
found to be generally compatible with the process of studying the mundane
universe, figuring out how it actually works, and devising clever new
gadgets based on that understanding. Including but not limited to
non-leaky space****ps.
"Sufficiently advanced", in this context, means roughly "has lasted three
generations without being marginalized".
The religions/ideologies which have not merely avoided marginalization but
actually flourished, are generally the ones which went the extra step and
encouraged, rather than merely tolerated, scholar****p and/or science.
Maybe for selfish reasons, but it's the result that matters.
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