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Mercnbeth -> RE: Former Surgeon General criticizes the White House (7/11/2007 11:04:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: philosophy
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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth
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It chapz my azz that science is POLITICAL now!
Now? PA-hunk, Galileo's science was repressed for political reasons.
...however most of the people in the Land of the Free weren't expecting the Spanish Inquisition to rear its ugly head again.......it's almost as if the USA was some sort of quasi religious rogue state.....[:D].......and that can't be true, can it........
philo,
Of course it's true. Liberalism and conservatism are modern day religions followed by zealots equal to those of the Spanish Inquisition, just not as clever with their torture devices.
Compare the "one true religion" dogma of the Catholic church to the positions of the 'scientific left' or the 'scientific right' in the USA is exact down to the exclusionary consideration or agenda accusing opinions of both on opposing views.
My theory is that 'man' requires 'religion'. Modern man may have outgrown the primitive forms and no longer believes in an all knowing, all seeing, unquestioned, divine entity; but the vacuum created by its absence has, in some cases, been filled by similar blind belief forming, what amounts to a new 'religions' and new Messiahs.
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