View source for 2007-05-23 Do-nothing atheists and re-igniting the Enlightenment

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<let name=data index=Date>2007-05-23</let>
<let name=data index=Topics>\Age of Enlightenment\active atheism\religion control\PZ Myers/posts</let>
<let name=data index=URL>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/donothing_atheists_and_reignit.php</let>
<let name=data index=Title>Do-nothing atheists and re-igniting the Enlightenment</let>
<let name=data index=Text>&ldquo;...barring the complete eradication of [[religion]], we need to [[religion control|change it]] to accommodate the modern world. I'll add, though, that other countries did set up state religions, and then seem to have modified that institution into similarly benign forms that have had a more lasting effect. The unofficial position of [[America's founding fathers]] may have been wonderfully positive in the beginning, but we can see now that they flopped mightily at building enduring institutions that would maintain any kind of religious [[rationalism]]. I tend to think that if they had, for instance, declared [[Unitarianism]] the official US religion (with the same strong statements that religion was not to be a prerequisite for holding office, etc., and that it was not a declaration of exclusivity) we'd be better off today. There'd at least be one officially sanctioned brake on the excesses of our wildly proliferating looney-tunes churches.&rdquo;</let>
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