[Vision2020] The Persecution of Quakers: Shame On Our

[Tom Hansen]

Much like Pat Condell who claims to be . . .

"Godless and Free"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjZ-lSn0A3M

Is this what you are getting at, Ken?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> On Wednesday 26 November 2008 07:52:28 Tom Hansen wrote:
> 
> > In my opinion, the age of a religion should not be a requisite to join 
its
> > ranks.
> 
> Wouldn't life be simpler if all religions were old enough to be dead? 
Wouldn't 
> life be a lot simpler without the problems they are so talented in 
causing?
> 
> > Otherwise, we would all be atheists.
> 
> And still a little logically challenged without a proof of non-existence.
> 
> > It is also my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) that 
Christianity
> > would be considered the "new kid on the block" when its age istaken 
into
> > comparison of other world religions.
> 
> Muhammad lived in the seventh century A.D., so Islam is younger.
> 
> Actually, I suspect that the more practical comment is that even if a 
$DEITY 
> does not exist, humans are genetically and socially endowed in such 
manners 
> that humans will continue to invent what we presently can't prove, and 
> otherwise are reluctant to accept, probably does not exist. Humans, in 
the 
> present eon at least, have too much fun fighting each other for 
dominance and 
> control to give up inventing religions and their problems and benefits.
> 
> Just to put a book title on the point, I just started reading _Anathem_ 
by 
> Neal Stephenson, a novel about "a young avout living in the Concent of 
Saunt 
> Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, 
> protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world 
by 
> ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the 
centuries 
> cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. 
> Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of 
superstition and 
> ignorance has invaded and and devastated the cloistered mathic 
community. Yet 
> the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, 
becoming 
> out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and 
> material things." This quoted front fly-leaf text goes on to set up the 
story 
> that follows . . .
> 
> 
> Ken
>

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