-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/07 17:39, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> 95.4% of all statistics are bogus. So is this one unless you've got >> a hard reference. > > To be fair I do not, I am referencing Richard Dawkins' citation of such > but do not have that reference on hand (Was it in the _God Delusion_ or on his > web site?). > >> But are there any (non-trivial) secular non-totalitarian governments? > > Is this more a case of the rampant theism more than anything else? Hard > to say that it doesn't work when it really hasn't been tried. Besides, if I > want to play that game I can always point out that historically most theistic > regimes are also totalitarian including most of the modern examples. ;)
Throughout time, most governments have been absolute monarchies or theocracies. I posit that all governments have the totalitarian urge, and, if possible[0], will become so. [0] In the past, it was difficult for the *central* government to be totalitarian when it took 6 weeks to sail across the ocean, march across the continent, etc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF4iI+S9HxQb37XmcRAkYjAKDMDmnIVo0ozP8s3r8NHMBvT9lUswCg0pcJ lKrHzevKKV881uxKBPpvxsE= =JC6V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
