As I understand it, at least a third of all Americans still believe Saddam Hussein had WMDs, even though all the evidence has shown the contrary. A full quarter of all Americans still believe that 9/11 was a government conspiracy, in spite of the thousands of eye-witnesses, police reports, and independent investigations. How many people believe in astrology, UFO's, psychics, luck, karma, fate, fortune, angels, demons, gremlins, goblins, dragons, horoscopes, numerology, racial superiority, gender-based intelligence, and religious mythology? Most of the people I've met have demonstrated one of the above irrational beliefs.
Many of those people vote. If people are motivated by superstition and ignorance, how can they reasonably govern themselves? Religion, superstition, and unfounded conspiracy theories should have no place in the political world. Yet today, most governments in the world are not seperate from religion, and some are run by crackpots who don't believe in the Holocaust.
2007-08-31
09:59:40
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