The Expansionist

Friday, November 19, 2004

Two Letters. I emailed the following short Letters to the Editor of the New York Post on successive days this week.
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Item No. 1: Willful Blindness. If the Boy Scouts had as an integral part of their oath, "There is no God, and a true Scout works to persuade superstitious people to accept that morality does not depend on belief in the supernatural", would Collin Levey be blasé about public moneys going to their support and public schools being used as meeting places? Not likely.
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Compelled atheism is the flip side of compelled religiosity. Russia went from established religion to established atheism overnite.
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The reason it is important to stop religious bigotry early is the universal understanding that "As the twig is bent, so grows the tree." The individual religious — or irreligious — conscience of a boy must not be cowed, lest he become intolerant as an adult. Some religious people don't see that, as long as it is religion being imposed. But if irreligion were imposed, they'd see in a hurry.
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(Responsive to "Damning the Scouts", New York Post, November 18, 2004)
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Item 2: Sauce Anglaise. George F. Will asks, as to the permanent members of the Security Council, "Why not replace France with a single EU representative?" You can't very well take France's seat away without also taking Britain's, since Britain is part of the EU too.
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(Responsive to "Qs for Condi", New York Post, November 17, 2004)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 5:04 AM

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