getoffmedz says: 'Racism is a BIRTH DEFECT in the white population'
I did not know that you get born with particular opinions. Interesting. Also, of course completely false. Not to mention that racism is not a white invention. Ask the Chinese what they think of the rest, the Japanese what they think of Coreans, The Turks what they think of the Kurds, and so on. Also, racism is first about looking down on others, fear is not the primary thing.
I think Stephen Weinberg has said all there is to say on that topic (paraphrasing from memory): Good people will do good things even without religion; bad people will do bad things even with religion; but for good people to do bad things, it requires religion.
Well what can I say. It seems we have been cursed to live in interesting times.
getoffmedz says: 'Racism is a BIRTH DEFECT in the white population'
I did not know that you get born with particular opinions. Interesting. Also, of course completely false. Not to mention that racism is not a white invention. Ask the Chinese what they think of the rest, the Japanese what they think of Coreans, The Turks what they think of the Kurds, and so on. Also, racism is first about looking down on others, fear is not the primary thing.
I think Stephen Weinberg has said all there is to say on that topic (paraphrasing from memory): Good people will do good things even without religion; bad people will do bad things even with religion; but for good people to do bad things, it requires religion.
Some of that 25% can also (or will in future be) gotten from biomass (plants, algae, photosynthetic bacteria).