The Scientific Enlightenment came at no small cost

Imprisionment, blasphemy, books burnt, the Inquisition, internment  death

The Secular, Spiritual  Sceptical, Scientific spirit survived and slowly tamed Christian fundamentalisn.

Now, a new constant vigilance is the price we pay as unreformed superstition seeks to re-establish a new dark place in the west - truly it is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere

Those who can make people believe absurdities can just as easily make them commit atrocities.Common sense is not so common.

Secularism opposed again by Superstition

Free speech condemned by holy men!

We must  judge a man or woman solely  by their independence of mind: by the questions s/he asks, rather than by the answers.s/he has been taught to expect.