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I suspect that if these guys hadn't gotten religion, they would have succeeded in some other line of work in which sociopaths excel: organized crime kingpin, CEO, republican senator....

Though as I understand it, you need to demonstrate some pretty sharp reasoning skills and the ability to perform some sophisticated exegesis to get to be an ayatollah. Which is more than anyone has ever seen Robertson do.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 01:17:34 PM EST
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Unfortunately one of the most potent effects of religion is the way that it turns attention-seeking angry nobodies into influential somebodies.

People who are sweating about Darwin are looking in the wrong place. It's the consistent way in which the Paisleys, Khomeinis, Robertsons and (for all I know) a Sikh and a Rabbi or two have ridden religion to the top of a war-mongering murderous pile of nonsense that makes ideology, and especially religious ideology frightening.

People not knowing about evolution is barely a sideshow.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 02:26:11 PM EST
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