09/25/03 - Suggested topics will include:

• Statistically speaking, do you feel that non-religious people are more ethical or moral than religious people? Why or why not?
• How do you feel the candidates did that participated in Wednesday night's California recall debate? Do you feel any of the candidates really came out ahead? If you lived in California who would you vote for and why?
• A new fossil suggests interbreeding of modern humans and Neanderthals. If this turns out to be confirmed by future fossil finds and other evidence, how will this change our way at looking at human evolution and ourselves?
• Last Wednesday, a Californian 18-year-old died at a hospital, just days after taking prescription pills to abort her early pregnancy. Does this show that the drug, RU-486, is too dangerous to remain on the market or was this just a rare incident? Should RU-486 be legal?
• How do you react and/or respond when someone comes to your door selling their religion? Would you respond differently if the person proselytizing shared the same beliefs (or non-beliefs) as yourself? Does the door-to-door proselytizing method truly allow a religion to gain an adequate number of new adherents? Should religious proselytizing be illegal?
• Send your topic suggestions to: info@freeinquiryforum.com

Quote of the week: "The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse. It is doubtful whether a movement which does not profess some preposterous and patently irrational dogma can be possessed of that zealous drive which "must either win men or destroy the world." It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others." [Eric Hoffer, _The True Believer_, 1951, section 88]

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