[FoRK] Faith and/or Science dingding redux

[Jeff Bone]

BTW, let's shift the discussion back to the concrete. Again, THIS is  
what religion does:

   http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/28/sudan.bears/

    Teacher charged in teddy bear case
    CNN - 55 minutes ago

    LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British teacher arrested in Sudan  
after allowing her class
    to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has been charged by authorities  
with offending religion,
    state-run media in Sudan report.

This is not some academic reductio.  This is *real news.*  This is  
the natural end-point of the religious thought process.  Religion is  
about --- and MUST be about --- intolerance, authority, and enforcing  
behavioral norms.  If you accept the religious givens for any  
religion, this (or somewhere near enough to not warrant argument) is  
where you end up, eventually or from time to time.  Religion MUST be  
about the authoritative, the dogmatic, the prescriptive, the divisive  
--- and therefore opposed to the empirical, objective, and scientific.

It's codified insanity.

jb