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Old 05-03-2009, 11:15 PM   #122
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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop View Post
What it all boils down to is guys like CalgaryBorn are really teaching their kids is to be afraid. Fear of ideas. Fear of those different than themselves.

Christian Fundamentalists are losing the culture war. Their last line of defense is to circle the wagons.
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."

Bertrand Russell, of course.
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