A bigot is a person who is obstinately and irrationally, often intolerantly, devoted to his or her own religion, political party, organization, belief, or opinion, especially one who regards or treats those of differing devotion with hatred and intolerance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry
The Science-can-do-no-wrong, if-it-does-wrong-it-is-not-Science, the-rest-of-the-world-has-to-be-corrected-to-my-way-of-thinking we've seen (even on Goanet) makes me feel that Science might sometimes have the same arrogance that we accuse (probably not wrongly) the world of religion or communalism or politics or nationalism. As for 'secularism', there are many interpretations of what this term means. In the Indian context, the militant attempt at debunking religious views, seems to have pushed believers only deeper into the arms of the fundamentalists. This is only my opinion. Please don't Galelio-ise me for it! Besides, I obviously don't have the proof necessary to subject these views through the tests necessary for making this work as Scientific Evidence. But since you asked.... my views nonetheless, and a quote from the W'pedia! FN 2009/9/2 Santosh Helekar <chimbel...@yahoo.com>: > --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न > <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I believe every religious and non-religious ideology >> (including secularism and Science!) has its own phases of bigotry and >> intolerance. > What are the phases of bigotry and intolerance of secularism and science? > Please describe them in at least a couple of paragraphs. -- FN +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 Konkani adages http://konkani-adages.notlong.com/ Medieval Goa http://medieval-goa.notlong.com/