It is Not Disbelief That is Dangerous to Our Society; It is Belief. — George Bernard Shaw

Belief. A topic I have spoken on many times before. For one something to be cherished and at the same time something that can be utterly dangerous. A thing that seems so innocent and wonderful, as a child desperately believes in Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy; yet also a thing that has caused so much devastation. Belief that an entire race or religion of the human population is not worthy of life. Belief that any one person is better than any other based on a skin color, a gender, a social status, a place of upbringing, or any number of fatuous grounds and conjectures. Belief in something so silly as that the Earth is truly flat when the spherical shape of Earth was discovered in the 3rd century BC.

A belief becomes dangerous when it remains unchallenged or challenge is refused for fear of what may be revealed. Questions must always be asked about ideas. If there are no questions then there can be no ultimate truth. If Columbus hadn’t questioned the idea of only sailing one way to India how much longer would it have taken to discover the ‘New World’? If the Greeks hadn’t challenged beliefs that disease is manifested out of superstition and religious punishment, where would the argument for evidence based medicine begin? Everything begins with a question. A very simple thought that simply…