[ExI] The list is in the timeline and Religious Idiocy

[Keith Henson]

Re the list, L5 Society is mentioned as well.  It's kind of amusing
how many of the transhuman causes I have been involved in.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:46 PM,  John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> ?Why is it OK to criticize somebody's beliefs about anything EXCEPT
> religion no matter how brain dead dumb it is? Why does religion always get
> a free pass?

That's a really good question.  In this case, it is probably conflated
with liberal quilt over the history of our culture dispossessing the
natives.

But I think the main reason lies in the fairly recent end of wars of
religion that raged so long in Europe.  Though religions were not the
root cause (population growth and resource limitations are the root
cause) when people finally quit using religious as an excuse to kill
each other, it became socially forbidden to argue about religions for
fear of starting another war.

Of course you certainly can argue that communism is in the same class
as religions in being used as a excuse for wars.

Keith