[FoRK] More faith-driven insanity: kill the teacher!

[Jeff Bone]

On Nov 30, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Sat N wrote:

>> Religion doesn't cause all violence, that's certain;  but religion
>> *inherently causes* even more (a) non-rational thought, (b)
>> intolerance and cultural exclusion, (c) hatred, and (d) xenophobia
>> (and hence xenophobic violence) than would otherwise exist.  Further
>> it "immunizes" those infected against the very kinds of rational
>> discourse and persuasion that could counter those tendencies.  And it
>> is, indeed, infectious.
>
> Prove it. Use your scientific principles to prove it - anecdotes are
> not sufficient for a proof.

The proof is simple:  study history.

jb