Faith kills curiosity
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With religiosity comes certainty, and with certainty comes a complete lack of curiosity. Jacoby points out that religious belief in some common forms is antithetical to democracy itself. “Those who rely on the perfect hand of the Almighty for political guidance, whether on biomedical research or capital punishment, are really saying that such issues can never be a matter of imperfect human opinion,” she writes. Not wanting to know might be the new American ethos.
Richard Evans Lee • February 27, 2005 • Reader, what do you think?
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