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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (255151)7/7/2014 9:29:31 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 542085
 
I wouldn't give a damn about religion if I didn't feel it imperials the survival of the human species.

Look at how the folks in many very religious communities fight education and science, or just don't value it.

I should just continue to bite my tongue on this stuff but I've about bitten through by now.

This distinction is far too simple. There are a great many very religious folk including the leaders of most of the major Protestant denominations (I refer to them only because I know about them) who are quite enamored with serious science, believers in evolution, and much in favor of much more serious measures to stop global warming than the present administration has put forward. By the same token, there are many quite religious scientists.

I knew two faculties rather well in the past century. There were quite a few dedicated scientists on those faculties who were quite serious about their religion.

You have in mind a certain form of religion, generally fundamentalist, literalistic.
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