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Electronic Frontier Foundation Sues Uri Geller
reversible physicist writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued spoon-bender Uri Geller for using 'baseless copyright claims' to silence critics who question his paranormal powers. Brian Sapient posted on YouTube a 14-minute excerpt from the 1993 PBS NOVA program 'Secrets of the Psychics,' in which skeptic James Randi says Geller's spoon-bending feats were simple tricks. YouTube took down the video after Geller complained — his lawyers claim that 10 seconds of the video are owned by Geller. A shorter excerpt of the video is still up on YouTube."
In very positive terms, religions advocate following unproveable assertions.
In less positive terms, religions are simply ancient myths.
In brutally objective terms, religions are masses of deluded people following and acting upon lies.
In my world, if you believe in and act on falsehoods, chances are good that you can be led to do things that would not be done by clearly thinking, well informed people. This fact, and this fact alone, is easily sufficient for me to consider religion as evil.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Rel