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  • Which kills more: ideology or religion?

    06/01/2005 10:29:28 AM PDT · by Squawk 8888 · 13 replies · 585+ views
    AFM ^ | May 31, 2005 | Andrew Kenny
    The sun set on the 20th century more than four years ago but you can still see a blood-red glow on the horizon. The century that saw unprecedented technological progress also saw unprecedented slaughter. Previously, religion had served mankind’s deep needs for explanation, order, spiritual comfort and transcendental meaning. Now a new and hideous thing was summoned up to serve the same needs. The thing was ideology, and in a few decades it caused more bloodshed than millennia of religion. It was darker and more irrational, and contained within it something unknown to all the Religions of the Book: a...
  • Greenpeace founder now promotes nuclear energy and genetically modified foods

    03/01/2004 10:55:54 AM PST · by paulat · 35 replies · 1,242+ views
    Wired magazine ^ | Issue 12.03 - March 2004 | Drake Bennett
    <p>Three decades ago, Patrick Moore helped found Greenpeace. Today he promotes nuclear energy and genetically modified foods - and swears he's still fighting to save the planet.</p> <p>Patrick Moore has been called a sellout, traitor, parasite, and prostitute - and that's by critics exercising self-restraint. It's not hard to see why they're angry. Moore helped found Greenpeace and devoted 15 years to waging the organization's flamboyant brand of environmental warfare. He campaigned against nuclear testing, whaling, seal hunting, pesticides, supertankers, uranium mining, and toxic waste dumping. As the nonprofit's scientific spokesperson, he was widely quoted and frequently photographed, often while being taken into custody.</p>