[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[BCS]

Hello Walter,

> This is hardly limited to religious beliefs. It happens with political
> correctness, too. Look at the recent slashdot article where Dyson
> dares to question global warming:
> http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/28/1558225
> 
> My own theory is that the shriller a person cries to suppress "wrong"
> beliefs, the more that person fears their own beliefs might be the
> ones that are wrong.
> 
> Or perhaps everyone just enjoys a public stoning now and then :-(
> 

I think the answers is to always be willing to entertain /rational/ debate 
on anything. The thought being that truth will always stand up to reason, 
so unless you *want* to believe something false, you have nothing to fear 
in reason