(July 9, 2013 at 3:15 am)apophenia Wrote: Propaganda is commonly defined as communication designed to appeal to a person's emotions in order to get them to take a desired action.
I have seen nothing in this thread that really talks about propaganda, creationist or otherwise, much less any demonstration that creationists have a specific model of propaganda that they employ, nor does anything in this thread even remotely help me understand this alleged model.
The Wedge Strategy
Phillip E Johnson, 'father' of the ID movement and co-founder of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture Wrote:If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the world of the mind. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this,...We call our strategy the "wedge."
(July 11, 2013 at 7:08 pm)catfish Wrote: Damn min, you suck as a fluffer too...
Isn't that the idea?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
