Interesting Take From Ted Turner

Ted Turner On Religion And Psychiatry

Some people choice to blame religion for their mishaps and the ills of the world. I choice to blame the ones doing the dirty deeds. Religion is used as an "escape goat" and it always will be. Now that people are beginning to be more and more less religious a new escape goat is immerging and the "Psychologists" are filling that hole. In fact they are the new priest or ministers of day.

If you have a problem and can't cope, take some Prozac. You are a loser, blame it on your parents or your parent from the 16th century. You are chemically unbalanced and other blah, blah, blah, blah bullshit. Many dangerous criminals are out of jail because of a nutcase shrink, says that he killed because his "Daddy didn't buy him a lolipop". What is sad is that "Psychology has the backing of the scientific community" and religion does not.

If someone wants to talk to a priest to solve their problems, that is fine. If someone wants to go to a therapist to solve their problem that is fine too. However both can be equally harmful. It is the individual who has to decide which advice is safe and helpful.

Ted Turner on the Iraq war

One way to reduce such dangers in the world would be to leave women in charge, said the former husband of Jane Fonda.

"Men should be barred from public office for 100 years in every part of the world. ... It would be a much kinder, gentler, more intelligently run world. The men have had millions of years where we've been running things. We've screwed it up hopelessly. Let's give it to the women."

In the meantime, the United Nations represents the best hope, Turner said.

While the world body is ridiculed as ineffective and irrelevant by its harshest critics and often criticized by its strongest advocates, Turner offered what was then one-third of his net worth to the world body nine years ago.

"I am absolutely certain we would not have made it through the Cold War without the U.N.," Turner said. "When Khrushchev at the U.N. took his shoe off and hit podium he was so mad, but he had a place to let off steam. If the U.N. hadn't been there, that would have been war right then."

When a questioner from the audience challenged Turner on the United Nations's value, Turner shot back.

"The war between Lebanon and Israel and Hizbollah would still be going on if it hadn't been for the U.N., and that's only in the last two weeks, Bubba."