The Wrath of the Intelligent Designer

[Joel Katz]

huh?  people "need" religion?  what people, who are you speaking for?  this 
is the kind of indulgence i i was talking about -- as if there were an 
acceptable minimum of social psychosis.

this is the only country in the developed world in which religious 
participation is going up over the last 30-40 years (and this country was 
way more secular, or at least much more diligent about the separation of 
church and state, back then).  in france, 12% of people say they belong to a 
church (less actually go).

to what do you attribute the difference?  american "rugged individualism"?  
how about cowardice, self-interest, cynicism, miseducation, frivolity.

and what's wrong, exactly, with rationalists trying to limit the growth (for 
starters) of organized religion in this country, legally and politically?  i 
don't know about you, but i sure love that churches are tax-exempt here in 
jesusland.

and:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393035158/qid=1127253343/sr=5-1/ref=cm_lm_asin/104-7132133-2957530?v=glance

>
>You lost me here. How does this follow? Or do you propose rationalists, 
>agnostics, atheists etc. should actively try to destroy religion and/or 
>force the general population into stop believing in supreme beings -- 
>something impossible, by the way: many (heck, most) people need some sort 
>of religion to rely on in order to get by. How can tolerating this be seen 
>as hypocrisy?
>
>Cyrus

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