RE: Attention Theists! Present your best argument for the existence of God!
December 28, 2011 at 1:33 am
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2011 at 1:34 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(December 27, 2011 at 6:02 am)5thHorseman Wrote: IQ test's are a poor illustration of someone's intelligence. I've scored over 150 and known far smarter score less.
It's true. I'm actually a huge group of cats in a room with wall-to-wall keyboards all connected to one computer - moderated by another such room with cats and keyboards but they're all space and delete buttons.
Naturally, the animal shelter is ignorant of our setup in their basement but they're on to the strange, massive catnip purchases we've been trying to hide.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
