Global Warming's New Math

[eburns at gmail.com]

Only if they become as zealous as the zealots. Which tends to make them just as irritating as their nemesis.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:06:58 
To: Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
Cc: David Morris<fqmorris at gmail.com>; Alex Colter<recoignishon at gmail.com>; pynchon -l<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: Global Warming's New Math

Can atheists save the world from religious zealots? There's a good question
to ponder.

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Ian Livingston
> <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's appropriate to recall the chorus of the Crusades: "It's God's
> will!" As if, I
> > mean, wtf, one of the premises of the various People of the Book is that
> > God's ways are beyond mortal understanding. One might suspect the
> > arrogance often associated with poor self-esteem in the addictive ego
> structure.
>
> This is why it's preferable to have people who'd prefer a future in
> THIS world with their fingers on all the various buttons/triggers/what
> have you.
>
> This, e.g.,
> http://www.randomhouse.com/book/141602/arsenals-of-folly-by-richard-rhodes
> is enlightening in that regard.
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant

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