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I find most religions narrow minded, self-serving, ridiculous, superstitions and lately dangerous.

Now, Can . . . we . . . change? Can people change enough to survive which is what animals do — good ones anyway. Which part of our polarized human mind is going to win out: the part that is smart enough to invent nuclear weapons? Or the part that, next time, is going to use one in order to "get to heaven."

Yeah, we all roll our eyes at that, but violence in the name of religion has a shoddy history on our side of the world too. So the idea that this beef that we have with the Muslims could go nuclear—that is on my mind right now. And, I do not relinquish—nor should any of you—the right to criticize, even as we support, our government. This is still a democracy and they're still politicians, so we need to let our government know that we can't afford a lot of things that we used to be able to afford. Like a missile shield, that will never work for an enemy that doesn't exist. We can't afford to be fighting wrong and silly wars. The cold war. The drug war. The culture war. Busting television producers at the airport for taking funny mushrooms to Las Vegas, while the terrorist-looking guys with the knives get right on. We have to outgrow childish and antiquated stuff real fast.

Can we?

Can . . . we . . . change? -Bill Mahr

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posted by NeoN @ 7/20/2003 08:15:00 AM