Letters to the Editor
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The dangers of irrationality
This is exactly why I have a problem with any religion, not just Christianity, and not because they're 'oppressive' or 'narrow-minded', but because they are simply not true. These were people who were too hip and avant-garde to settle for one of the boring organized religions, but were too weak to shake off that idiotic mantra of "there MUST be something more out there". Rational atheism, belief in a scientific phyiscal world just weren't hip enough for them, just like they aren't today for many new-age liberals who prattle on about Buddhism and yoga. But what these kinds of cults and the fundamentalist factions of more mainstream religions both demonstrate is the danger of relinquishing rationalism and the scientific worldview. Once you've opened the door to mystical mumbo-jumbo and 'faith', anything goes.