Christians invoking "The Emperor's New Clothes" to make a point is too deliciously ironic. Idiot.
This reminds me how several years ago, when I was living in Nevada, some warrior for Christ got an involved word salad of fallacies and scientific illiteracy -- supposedly demonstrating how evolution was wrong and a poisonous gift of the devil (this last was a quote) -- into the op-ed page of the local paper. I was so incensed that our paper would print such nonsense that I wrote a point-by-point refutation and submitted it to the editor. Needless to say, it didn't get published. When I inquired why, I was told that it was too long (though it was no longer than the letter I responded to) and that in their opinion it wasn't worth opening the op-ed page to an ongoing and "irresolvable controversy" (their exact words) when there were so many other issues in need of discussion. It was then that I flashed back on my high school biology teacher who was too much a pussy to cover evolution because he didn't want the headache of dealing with fundie students and parents.
Sometimes it's so embarrassing to be an American.
This reminds me how several years ago, when I was living in Nevada, some warrior for Christ got an involved word salad of fallacies and scientific illiteracy -- supposedly demonstrating how evolution was wrong and a poisonous gift of the devil (this last was a quote) -- into the op-ed page of the local paper. I was so incensed that our paper would print such nonsense that I wrote a point-by-point refutation and submitted it to the editor. Needless to say, it didn't get published. When I inquired why, I was told that it was too long (though it was no longer than the letter I responded to) and that in their opinion it wasn't worth opening the op-ed page to an ongoing and "irresolvable controversy" (their exact words) when there were so many other issues in need of discussion. It was then that I flashed back on my high school biology teacher who was too much a pussy to cover evolution because he didn't want the headache of dealing with fundie students and parents.
Sometimes it's so embarrassing to be an American.
