We Are Interested in Big Ideas

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In fact, the idea - the very idea - of a Chosen People is a racist idea. Few people are able to see that because they have been indoctrinated into the Old Religion. Those few who can see it are apt to wonder about their 'fellow man.' Furthermore, their 'fellow man' is apt to wonder about them. It is a dangerous situation, saved only by the egalitarianism of a True Democracy. This is our current situation. We are very close to religious civil war, which would be a war of the haves versus the have-nots: that is to say it would be a war between those who have a certain level of knowlege and sophistication versus those ignorant fools with which every civilation contends.