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Unread 9 Feb 2006, 21:54   #124
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Re: Jihad. Reality or Stage-Managed Psychological Warfare

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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
Emotional balance for one (see that episode of South Park where Stan's dad drink-drives for a parody of this). Stem cell research for another - "hindrances" don't have to be individual.
Ridiculous. How many religious people do you know? Do they all have the same inbuilt tendency to bomb things? How do you define 'emotional balance', anyway?
I don't see how belief in a God necessarily hinders stem cell research, either.
And I don't give a toss about South Park.

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You implied here that I said "progress", when I did not. In any case, the persuit of knowledge is its own reward.
It was an educated guess. Not far off the mark, as it happens.

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If I could be said to believe in anything, it would be the ingenuity and skill of man. This can vary from large scales to trivial - the latter end being represented by something like faith in the ability of Tim Shafer or Chris Avallone to make good computer games.
I believe in the fallibility of man.
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