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**stutnerman** · 08-08-2010, 11:52 PM

If we choose the latter, it erodes bin Laden's standing in the eyes of those who are open-minded enough to evaluate these things rationally.

Unfortunately, that mainly means people in the West. hard for people to be rational when they aren't taught to be and their societies are too closed to get any grasp of facts anyway.

I believe the notion that the West is more rational than elsewhere is just cultural bias. Just look at the antics of the Republican Party in America, busily denying the reality of global warming because global warming is inconvenient to their ideology. Or look at the fanatical Christian fundamentalists, trying to rewrite our science books.
Most Muslims are not fundamentalists, and only a tiny minority are terrorists.

For my money, ALL religion is an impediment to rational analysis.

08-08-2010, 11:52 PM	#28
stutnerman Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 492 Senior Member	If we choose the latter, it erodes bin Laden's standing in the eyes of those who are open-minded enough to evaluate these things rationally. Unfortunately, that mainly means people in the West. hard for people to be rational when they aren't taught to be and their societies are too closed to get any grasp of facts anyway. I believe the notion that the West is more rational than elsewhere is just cultural bias. Just look at the antics of the Republican Party in America, busily denying the reality of global warming because global warming is inconvenient to their ideology. Or look at the fanatical Christian fundamentalists, trying to rewrite our science books. Most Muslims are not fundamentalists, and only a tiny minority are terrorists. For my money, ALL religion is an impediment to rational analysis.
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