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Elaboration 63
It is Lucretius again who demonstrates so vividly the
inhumanity, the violation of human dignity (and rights and
duties) that is caused by superstition, especially the irrational
belief in 'sperrits' (the term is from Long John Silver).
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by superstition, he said. We know of the Iphigenia's in
Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, etc. and of
modern man, blasted to bits by bombs in a marketplace, shot
like a pig in a hi-jacked train, plane, ship or bank.
These superstitions cannot change man's rights and
duties, they only can violate them by consent of the
(stupid) majority. (For these illegal rights, see also
Maugham's 'Rain', Wyndham's 'Wheels', his 'The Chrysalids',
Forester's 'The Sky and the Forest', ....., etc.).
Ven
2007-09-11