RE: Fundamentalist Pastor Takes to YouTube to Fault Women for All Social Ills
May 13, 2012 at 4:26 pm
(May 13, 2012 at 12:39 pm)Ziploc Surprise Wrote:(May 13, 2012 at 12:16 pm)orogenicman Wrote: I watched about a a minute of it and had to exit stage left. What an idiot. I'm very glad that the U.S. is no longer like what he envisions. Very glad for our women and our men alike.
Actually this belief still exists, it's just suppressed. I fear if the religious right gets more power these beliefs will resurrect themselves. I think Rick Santorum's looneyness was an early example of what could happen.
I didn't say that this kind of nonsense doesn't exist, just saying that that is not what the majority of Americans believe.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
