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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Sent: 9/18/2015 4:08:16 PM To: Lawrence Krauss Subject: Re: an article you may both hate. or like. Importance: High you can invite depp to visit us when you are in the caribean On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Lawrence Krauss < wrote: Ps. My piece argued against fanaticism. Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Foundation Professor School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research Office ______________ Assistant Origins Office______________________ krauss@asu.edu origins.asu.edu I twitter.com/Ikraussl I krauss.faculty.asu.edu Sent from my iPhone On Sep 10, 2015, at 12:02 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: I think religion plays a major positive role in many lives. . i dont like fanaticism on either side. . sorry On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Noam Chomsky AMMIIMMIE> wrote: Thanks for sending. A wide area of agreement, but not total. On confronting dogma, I of course agree — though in my opinion the secular religions — nationalist fanaticism, etc. — are much more dangerous. And if some find rational discussion offensive — as, for example, mainstream academics find dismantling myths of "American exceptionalism" or "Israeli self-defense" or Obama's mass murder campaign, etc., offensive — so be it. But I don't see why that should extend to ridicule. That includes astrologists. Astronomers can refute astrology, while recognizing that perfectly honest and deluded people may believe it and should be treated with respect, while their beliefs are confronted with evidence. I also don't see why we should ridicule religious dogma, just as I don't think we should ridicule the much more pernicious secular dogmas. Rather, we should respond to irrational belief with argument and evidence, while recognizing that their advocates (like most of the intellectual world in the case of secular dogma) are […]