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To: Michael M who wrote (82407)	6/21/2000 1:23:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I disagree. Christianity may have been dominant in these areas at the time when their great technological expansions occurred, but only in the sense that most people identified themselves as Christians. The massive social and political influence once wielded by the Christian churches began dwindling centuries earlier, and I don't think it at all coincidental that the rise of science and technology precisely paralleled that dwindling. I should have been more specific when I referred to "diversity": I meant intellectual diversity, the free market of ideas, not ethnic diversity. The free market of ideas will always be anathema to zealots of all description. I am by no means opposed to organization per se; we couldn't function without it. But I think that the combination of organization and a belief that is held to be absolute, immutable, and of unquestionable truth, whether that belief is religious or political in nature, is a very dangerous thing. Zealotry is by no means a necessary component of organization. I would suggest that the more successful we are at the influence of zealotry within our organizations, the more successful and enduring our organizations will be.