In a message dated 7/31/00 4:46:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< I think the movie "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" could be much
more
harmful than Hitler's Mein Kampf, because it shows magic working, and
children (as well as many adults) believe what they see. I think
uncritically accepting belief in magic and anti-science is more likely to
cause harm in to the year 2000 than any discredited Nazi political ideas.
---Tom Chappell >>
An interesting assertion. However, since there are far more skin-heads
street gangs than Thugee cults at large in the world, I don't know that it is
necessarily supportable. I know a lot of people who beleive unquestioningly
in magic, and all they ever do is stare at crystals and get pissy when I eat
a hamburger. Not many of them are lurking around gay bars wielding baseball
bats.
-Mac Hume
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