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

[Walter Bright]

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 :-(