Secularity is a Good Thing

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'Under God?' refers of course to the latest challenge to the Pledge of Allegiance as currently performed. Seems Michael Newdow has now 'achieved standing' and is reviving the issue and the court of appeals has agreed to hear his case. Did I get that right?

I have to admit that the result will be no big deal so far as I am concerned, but at the same time I am in favor of a gradual secularization of America. My reason - in a nutshell - is that a religious nut is far more dangerous than a scientific nut or an atheistic nut. It takes brains to be an atheist or a scientist but any dumbass can be religious (now listening to Beethoven's Choral Fantasy). The most significant effect of this is that whereas Atheists and Scientists can quickly spot and ostracize the nuts within their ranks, Religionists are not so well equiped in that regard.

Religious nuttery has virtually destroyed the Muslim reputation in the world. Let that be a lesson to you Judeo-Christian nuts out there. And more than reputation has been destroyed: the Arab-Muslim scientific and economic future has been destroyed. And not by us. They have destroyed it themselves through the ignorance fostered on them by their stupid religion.