[ExI] Bill Moyers: Susan Jacoby and "The Age of American Unreason"

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 23/02/2008, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 22 February 2008, PJ Manney wrote:
>  > We, who frequent lists like these, are often astounded when we see
>  > statistics about the number of people who believe in the literalness
>  > of biblical texts, or who don't think evolution is valid or who think
>  > the sun revolves around the earth.  What most of us fail to examine
>  > is why.  And it isn't as simple as religion vs. secularism.
>
>
> My bet is that these people are using cached thoughts when answering the
>  statistic questionaires. After all, how hard is it to just recognize
>  which opinion you most side with? And how much more difficult is it to
>  coherently write down what you think and how you are approaching the
>  future?

It's a terrible thing even if they don't really believe it, but just
feel that it's the "right" answer to give.



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Stathis Papaioannou