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

[Daniel Keep]

Walter Bright wrote:
> BCS wrote:
>> And it's not just in theology that I find this a problem; take a look
>> at the (not unbiased) documetery Expelled
>> (http://www.expelledthemovie.com), people are getting ostrosized for
>> questionig the party line on evolution. Some of these people aren't
>> even getting past "maybe" without getting shot down.
> 
> 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 :-(

All I said was that piece of fish was good enough for Jehovah...

  -- Daniel