Diary entry, November 1996
The history of mankind is replete with examples of what happens when religious doctrine is imposed upon a political system: totalitarian rule. There is no good to come of it, but only worsening of the social condition; Mexico is still struggling, decades after rejecting the Church's control.
The idea that my government might someday be run by people who insist that I live according to their own interpretations of 2000-year-old beliefs and accounts by people who did not even know the world was round is appalling, and frightens me nearly to death. We are headed for a tyranny of the minority, and I suggest that one concrete step toward resistance would be to make The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, required reading for every high school sophomore in America.
From an email written after watching "With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right," broadcast on PBS in 1996
The idea that my government might someday be run by people who insist that I live according to their own interpretations of 2000-year-old beliefs and accounts by people who did not even know the world was round is appalling, and frightens me nearly to death. We are headed for a tyranny of the minority, and I suggest that one concrete step toward resistance would be to make The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, required reading for every high school sophomore in America.
From an email written after watching "With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right," broadcast on PBS in 1996
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