[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[John Carl]

> [P]
> We basically agree, but I don't see the threat from religious zealots that
> you
> see. Rather, I see the threat coming from those who use reason (intellect)
> that
> thwarts our constitutional methods of establishing and enforcing laws. I
> think
> we are less likely to succumb to Islam, the Pope or Christian
> fundamentalists
> than we are to communism/socialism. We know what Pirsig thinks of such
> intellectually-guided societies. I agree with him.
>


By if by "intellectually-guided"  you mean the full outworking of patterns
of rational power-grabbing by self-interested individualism magnified on a
huge scale, resulting in some form of totalitarian control...

Well I agree completely.

God I hate "isms".  I'm not just a-ism'ist on this,   I'm anti-ism'ist.

John