<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>jeffrey E. &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Friday, September 18, 2015 4:08 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Lawrence Krauss</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: an article you may both hate. or like.</td></tr></table>

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P=. My piece argued against fanaticism.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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On =ep 10, 2015, at 12:02 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gma=l.com> > wrote:

I think religion plays a m=jor positive role in many lives. . i dont like fanaticism on either =ide. . sorry

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Noam Chomsky

wrote:

Thanks for sending. A wide areatof agreement, but not total.

On confronting dogma, I of course agr=e — though in my opinion the secular religions — nationali=t fanaticism, etc. — are much more dangerous. And if some fi=d rational discussion offensive — as, for example,

mainstream academ=cs find dismantling myths of "American exceptionalism" or =E2+4>Israeli self-defense" or Obama's mass murder campa=gn, etc., offensive — so be it.

But I don't see why that shou=d extend to ridicule. That includes astrologists. Astronomers =an refute astrology, while recognizing that perfectly honest and deluded people may believe it and should be treated with respect, while th=ir beliefs are confronted with evidence. I also don't see wh= we should ridicule religious dogma, just as I don't think we shou=d ridicule the much more pernicious secular dogmas. Rather, we should respond to irrational belief with argument and evidence,=while recognizing that their advocates (like most of the intellectual worl= in the case of secular dogma) are people who we should be responding to b=t without ridiculing them. It may be hard sometimes. For example, when the icon and founding fathe= of sober non-sentimental Realism in International Affairs informs us that=the US, unlike other countries, has a "transcendental purpose,40=80, and the fact that it constantly acts in contradiction to its purpose doesn't matter because the facts are just "=buse of history" while real history is "the evidence of history as our minds reflect=it," then it's hard to avoid ridicule. But we should= There's no point ridiculing virtually the entire IR profession and=the major journals, even though such extraordinary irrationality leads to =ajar human disasters.

On Davis, I frankly think that*=99s a non-issue. If she decides she cannot do her job as the conditi=ns of employment require (including following the law), then she can quit and look for another job. As in any other such case.=/u>

Noam

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Subject: an article you may both hate. or like.

=A0 hope all is well.

Lawrence

http://www.new-orker.com/news/news-desk/all-scientists-should-be-militant-atheists <http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-l-scientists-should-be-militant-atheists> =/u>

Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, The Origins Project at ASU
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative

Foundation Professor School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department

Arizona State University, P.O. Box =71404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404

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