09/04/03 - Suggested topics will include:

• Will science ever eliminate religion? Will science ever disprove or prove the existence of god(s)? The traditional properties of God of the monotheistic religions are incompatible with each other and inconsistent with objectively observable facts about the world. Shouldn't such a God have been detected by now?
• On Wednesday in California a bill granting illegal immigrants the right to obtain driver's licenses and car insurance was on the verge of becoming law. Should this be a law?
• Florida executed anti-abortion militant Paul Hill on Wednesday for the shotgun murders of a doctor and his bodyguard at an abortion clinic. Did this make Paul Hill a martyr? Should he have been kept in prison for life instead? What are the differences and/or similarities between Paul Hill and a suicide-bomber in the middle east? Will Hill's execution prompt more killings?
• In 1952, Kazan appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and named eight of his old friends from the Group Theater who in the 1930s, along with him, had been members of the American Communist Party. Should Elia Kazan, one of America's great directors, have received the Lifetime Achievement Award?
• What should be done about the situation in Iraq?
• Send your topic suggestions to: info@freeinquiryforum.com

Quote of the week: "Instead of being shocked, more people should do what I did. I expect a great reward in heaven." [Paul Hill, 49-year-old defrocked Presbyterian minister who was put to death for the shotgun murders of a doctor and his bodyguard at an abortion clinic.]

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