On 2 Aug 2005, at 11:21 pm, Dave Land wrote:
On Aug 2, 2005, at 11:05 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
I don't suggest that. But I do think that religion is one of the
easiest
causes of evil to eradicate.
Which is why tyrants throughout the centuries have had so much luck
doing so?
I think you'll find that it is only in your narrow little "I hate
religion and you should, too" view of the world that religion is
easy to
eradicate. Call it charlatanry, foolishness, stupidity or whatever
insult you may want to hurl at it, but the persistence of religious
belief across virtually every society in the history of the world
suggests that your belief that religion can be easily eradicated puts
you in a miniscule minority.
I don't think it's easily eradicated. I didn't say that. I said, and
you quoted it, that 'religion is one of the easiest causes of evil to
eradicate.'
Eradicating religion isn't an easy project, but it is easier than
changing human nature or one of the other hard to eradicate causes of
evil.
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William T Goodall
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Maybe Windows is good for people who *think* they're geeks, but are
not very good at it.
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