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

[Michael Butler]

On Dec 10, 2015 8:44 AM, "Keith Henson" <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

And this is why I called this kerfuffle small potatoes. The people who won
the case did not destroy all the existing instrument installations and
strip the flesh off the bones of the researchers for their violations of
taboo. (This is not Asimov's "Nightfall".)

Looks like progress to me ;)
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