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| by peter rosko I would like to talk with you about combating religion. It's been the primary source of world violence. and it's nothibg but centuries-old superstitutions. I've contacted Norman Lear and Free Inquiry in Amherst, New York, a Humanist organization. I'm hoping to include many other rational intellectuals including scientists, academics, and even nonbelieving clergy. For over two thousand years the superstitionists have ruled. I would like us to rise like a sunblotting flood of lucusts or powerful worldwide weeds to kill the supposedly nutritional but poisonous solace-giving baloney put foth by clergy and even politicians (GWB). Below are my comments to Free Inquiry, A Humanist organization in Amherst, New York, emailed to Norman Lear. "And how many Humanists have you added to the count by speaking, writing, sermonizing, conferencing, campusing, and cruising with the choir? Almost every religion is growing while the Humanists sit on their hands boasting about how many contacts they've had with each other. How about engaging several hundreds (thousands?) of top intellectuals, movie stars, athletes, politicians, biologists, geologists, other scientists and academics, and even thinking clergy such as the Dane who recently courageously spoke to his congregation that the resurrection and all of the other religious crap was just that -- crap -- to teach people to think, to do some serious critical thinking. How about raising a tsunami like flood of locusts or an unending growth of weeds descending upon the idiots of modern thinking instead of believing in what some relatively ignorant Middle Eastern nomads believed, said, and wrote thousands of years ago. But also what some bright rational minds in Greece, Rome, and elsewhere said also thousands of years ago. Read at least Chapter One of 1947 Beacon Press' Jabez T. Sunderland's The Origin and Character of the Bible for some good ideas. Read your own 2,000 Years of Disbelief by James A. Haught and read others of your dust-collecting 40,000 books. Tap cooperative Hollywood people like Norman Lear, Aaron Spelling and others to insert some funny but subtle instructive religious (actually antireligious) material into their sitcoms ala the Meathead's (not so subtle) atheism. Serious programs could also insert some antireligious rationality. Documentaries on religious history going back not 4,000 years ago, but 50,000 and more years ago. Where was God 50,000 years ago? Get Larry King and other talk show hosts to interview atheists, agnostics, and skeptics. I never cease to be amazed at the thousands of years old holding on to superstitious nonsense. Where are people's heads? They should all be brown knowing where they keep them. Supreme Court justices should be at the peak of critical thinkers -- and yet we hear Justice Scalia spewing off a bunch of religious nonsense. To Scalia add all of the other judges, lawyers, and the millions more of so-called intellectuals who believe. Get newspapers and magazines to print subtle anti-religious material. Engage your choir groupies to DO, DOOO!!!, something besides listening and cheering and waiting for next year’s activities. Sitting there in Amherst and elsewhere pocketing essentially unearned money exactly as do nonproductive clergy is shameful. You’re a bunch of bright people. Don't leave this planet before you make a significant contribution to truth and rationality." Peter Rosko, Ph.D. Retired Morse Alumni Distinguished (MAD) Teaching Professor of Finance, Emeritus Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 E-Mail: prosko@csom.umn.edu Comment on this... | ||||
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