From: Dawsonzhu@aol.com
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 13:33:43 EDT
Richard Faussette wrote:
>Do you not see that the country will always reflect the will of the most
>religious as in my example of an orthodox community that elects senators? You
>either get into the game of life or you withdraw from it - if you withdraw you
>lose by default -
Democracy is a tough and costly institution to keep going.
It is supposed to be maintained by a commitment from voters
to understand who they are voting for and how the various
institutions of government work. This is _supposed_ to be
accomplised by education although I really wonder sometimes
what people were doing in their political science classes.
Democracy and science both are in danger from zealots within
their institutions. In particular, I would suspect that
atheist zealots are just as damaging and wicked as Christian
zealots in science and both should be viewed with suspicion.
Fortunately, for science, the more typical zealots of science
eventually die off with their nonsense allowing new ideas to
eventually permeate. However, when religion comes cloaked
as science, this is probably the most dangerous: be it
atheist or theist propaganda.
As to Dershowitz, the right to free speach is also part
of our constitution. Still, that does not mean that I
have to agree with him. We have the institution of
education, but in the end, it is by grace alone that
we will muddle through each generation successfully.
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