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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Sam who wrote (18150)12/1/2003 11:04:59 PM
From: Dayuhan   of 793759
 

Voltaire said something about religion that may apply here: when you have one religion that is dominant, you get tyranny, when you have two that are about equal, you get civil war, when you have many religions, you get tolerance.

That’s rather good, though I would add that the degree of conviction with which these religions are followed has a great deal to do with the consequences. Two equal religions need not cause civil war, as long as the adherents of both retain a healthy degree of doubt, and acknowledge the possibility that the other guy may have legitimate points. What I see missing from American politics today is that healthy degree of doubt. Polaraziation is producing two sets of competing ideologues, both of which are displaying absolutist tendencies. That really does raise the prospect of civil war or ascendancy of one ideology, neither of which is a comfortable prospect.
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