[snip like a bris]
>
> Then Dean got onto his atheism thing, essentially arguing
> that religion is the root of all genocide. Mike refuted
> that by pointing to all the communist dictatorships that
> killed more in the 20th century than the Crusades or other
> religious wars in the middle ages (though of course we know
> that this was partly because of evolving technology). Dean
> shrugged that off with a "dictatorships are cults of personality,
> and therefore basically a form of relgion" argument that
> I, personally, didn't find very convincing.
>
Not all religions involve metaphysical higher beings. Consider a
variety of religious cults and you'll find the leader is quite human
(or inhuman as the case may be).
Check out also:
http://www.secweb.org/asset.asp?AssetID=238
--Harry Tick
Received on 2003-06-02 13:41:18