Re: an article you may both hate. or like.

Ps. My piece argued against =anaticism.

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On Sep 10, 2015, =t 12:02 PM, Jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailtojeevacation@gmail.com» wrote:

on either =ide.. sorry

I think religion plays a major =ositive role in many lives. . i dont like fanaticism

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 PM, =oam Chomsky <> wrote:

Thanks for sending. A wide area of agreement, =ut not total.

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On confronting dogma, I of course agree — =hough in my opinion the secular religions — nationalist =anaticism, etc. — are much more dangerous. And if some =ind rational discussion offensive — as, for example, mainstream =cademics find dismantling myths of "American exceptionalism =9D or "Israeli self-defense" or Obama's mass =urder campaign, etc., offensive — so be it.

But I don't see why that should extend to =idicule. That includes astrologists. Astronomers can refute =strology, while recognizing that perfectly honest and deluded people may believe it and should be treated with respect, while =heir beliefs are confronted with evidence. I also don't =ee why we should ridicule religious dogma, just as I don't =hink we should ridicule the much more pernicious secular dogmas. Rather, we should respond to irrational belief with argument and =vidence, while recognizing that their advocates (like most of the =ntellectual world in the case of secular dogma) are people who we =hould be responding to but without ridiculing them. It may be hard sometimes. For example, when the icon and founding =ather of sober non-sentimental Realism in International Affairs informs =s that the US, unlike other countries, has a "transcendental =urpose," and the fact that it constantly acts in contradiction to its purpose doesn't matter because the facts are just =E2 abuse of history" while real history is "the evidence of history as our minds =eflect it," then it's hard to avoid ridicule. But =e should. There's no point ridiculing virtually the entire IR profession =nd the major journals, even though such extraordinary irrationality =eads to major human disasters.

On Davis, I frankly think that's a =on-issue. If she decides she cannot do her job as the conditions =f employment require (including following the law), then she can quit and look for another job. As in any other such =ase.

Noam

Email sent by Lawrence Krauss to Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey E. on Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 1:51 AM. Subject: "an article you may both hate. or like." Jeffrey E.'s email: jeevacation@gmail.com.

&nb=p; hope all is well.

Lawrence

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Director, The Origins Project at ASU
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative

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School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department

Arizona =tate University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-14O4

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you can invite depp to visit us =hen you are in the caribean

or we can visit him on his

When I was with him yesterday = told him we were going to caribbean and he asked where.. He has =n island in bahamas, making you two the only people I know who own =slands.. :) will ask him if he is free then. He is =emarkable in new movie, though the film itself is not fantastic.. he is =Iso a pretty good guitarist.. his show with alice cooper and joe =erry in la was great.

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jeffrey E.

will bring up that possibility. :)

so glad we are aging to see you down =here.. working hard now after a week of traveling with Johnny =nd late nights, to finish my new book so I can actually celebrate that =s planned on the trip.

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