Comments on: Antiscience kills, part n

By: ivagad

ivagad — Sun, 13 May 2007 04:10:06 +0000

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By: Phillip Lindsay

Phillip Lindsay — Thu, 10 May 2007 06:38:08 +0000

The truth is the vast majority of religious leaders in this country have little or no real education, but they yield a dangerous amount of power and influence in society and politics. This is something the founding fathers warned us about, which we seem to have forgotten.
Unless we find a way to stop the blind adoption of parental belief systems by increasing the depth in the teaching the objective and neutral truth of science the scientific method, we are doomed to repeat history.

By: moonflake

moonflake — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:15:39 +0000

oh, and one more thing – the story i just wrote about only made it to page 13 of the local paper. Interpret that fact as you will, but I know it sickens and saddens me almost as much as the crime itself.

By: moonflake

moonflake — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:12:51 +0000

It’s not just India – happens all the time in South Africa too. Last month a 70 year old woman, her 56 year old daughter and her grandson were hacked to death by a machete wielding mob because of witchcraft accusations.

People accepting a concept such as witchcraft without requiring any real proof that it exists, directly leads to them being able to accept that someone is a practitioner of witchcraft without requiring any real proof that they are. And that’s why we need to fight superstition.

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:33:46 +0000

I am shocked that things like this can go on in modern times now it would be simple to beleve that this is just the work of superstitious people but ther is somethin more at work then just the belief in black majic .it is the histerya and feer that we all have of the enemy within
we have seen it in our own crountry in the salem witch trials but even in our own time inocent people have suffered because of a feer of a enemy within that had nothing to do a belief in majic .in the 50s we had macarthyism and feer of comunism many inocent people had ther lives destroyed on the accustion that thew they were comunists and after 911 even thro only a few moslems are terroists ther is ongoing wicth hunt in witch every person who followes Islam is suspected . In lesser known incicdents in the 50s in several towns in america people claimed that a manaic was puping poision gas into ther homes this turned out to be not true in the 80s several daycare workers were worngly convicted of molesteing children and thes had nothing to do superstion like this incendient it had to do with feer and hysteria.

By: James J. Murphy

James J. Murphy — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:12:31 +0000

“Holy Water not for sinners” ? The Bible says we are all sinners according to God’s definition of it. The Ten Commandments, a listing of “dont’s”. Who has never lied or coveted, for example? And other sins.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:42:25 +0000

I didn’t think you were meant to drink Holy Water anyway. Isn’t it just for splashing about? The Holy Water types drink wine don’t they? Ah well, whatever.

The whole thing is just a big scam playing on the stupidity of a mentally challenged section of the population. I’d feel sorry for them if they weren’t the ones trying to force their crackpot beliefs on the rest of us.