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Can a pluralistic and tolerant society be governed by [religious] law? ... gambling, and thus forbidden? Can a society that educates its young men by a process of rote recitation produce critically thinking, technically educated men to build and operate a modern economy? Can you even teach elementary concepts of maintenance to a people who believe that anything that happens is ... (As God wills it)?
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That mindset isn't as foreign as I would like; it's just taken to the [il]logical extreme.