This Carl Sagan quote is truer and more evidentially so at this time than it has ever been !! 🤔🤯
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Respecting the legacy is not putting him on a pedestal. And yes, we should respect the legacy of God's enemies. For one, it's educational. And two, if God really is bigger than all of this, then it doesn't hurt anything.
The suppression of ideas and culture is always wrong. That's why the religious right lost the culture war in the 60s. They wanted to control people and used their faith as a justification.
Jefferson said it best, "I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny on the mind of man"
It is not our place to dictate how others are supposed to live and think. Never has been. Until Jesus comes back to establish His Law, our job is to keep truth, including the past history of "God's enemies" and so forth and to not interfere with the choices of others.
I don't think we particularly disagree, but I see no reason personally to enshrine the philosophy of people who are against God. Let the disciples of the atheists do what they will, but always rebuke them in the open squares with reason, lest the common people be swayed by falsehoods. To that end, we should be well-informed of historical and modern heresies, such that we are amply prepared when we are called upon to defend the faith.
I am not so sure that the reason you cited was the fundamental reason that the right 'lost' the culture war in the 60s. Communist infiltration of western institutions was already ongoing by then.
TLDR: I don't think people like Sagan should be censored - far from it, but I don't think it's the place of the church to teach about secular anti-church ideas or keep a record of them except as a topic for apologia and a warning to future generations. If Sagan did any valuable scientific work, let the scientists revere him as they wish.