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The third falsehood I would crush is that there exists a factual relationship between what a person or group believes, and a logically flowing condition that that belief must therefore necessarily be correct and true. The history of discovery is replete with examples that manifest the absolute absurdity of presuming there might be some element of the least correlative necessity between beliefs and facts, yet survey after survey demonstrate the majority of Americans cling to the absurd. Finally, I ask these questions. Aren’t you sick and tired and just totally fed up with being afraid? Whether it’s five minutes from now or 80 years or so hence, you’re going to die, and when you do your time here will have been like a match-strike against the trillions of stars that compose the heavens. Maybe it’s me, but I kind of think that that’s just too short a time to spend a second of it fearing someone else because they’re not completely like me and don’t believe exactly as I do. Let it go, man. Just let it go. My most fevered wish then, is that Americans, to the very last one, develop the courage to push all the doors open, and try to discover why we are scared of another because of that other’s race or ethnicity or culture or religion or language or sexual orientation. — Ed Tubbs Palm Springs, CA
An "Old Army Vet" and liberal, qua liberal, with a passion for open inquiry in a neverending quest for truth unpoisoned by religious superstitions. Per Voltaire: "He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity."
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