It's hard to start off a serious discussion when I blatantly agree with everything that that article states.
One thing I found of particular interest was this:
Absolutely and infuriatingly inane drivvel that deserves to be highlighted in the public eye as often as possible to counter the rampant stupidity that is broadcasted by people who talk about things on those terms.
One thing I found of particular interest was this:
Column: Atheists, Agnostics Unfairly Represented, CBS News: Politics Wrote:The most infuriating notion is that the U.S. was founded by Christians on Christian ideals. Nearly all serious studies of the religious preferences of the Founding Fathers conclude that they were fiercely secular. Most were deists or influenced by deists, who were equated with atheism and barbarism by most Christians at the time.This certainly is infuriating and the most blatant show of ignorance of history by the religious right in this country when they talk about the constitution, the founding fathers, and generally anything about this being some sort of 'christian nation' - either now or as if this nation was intended to be founded on Christian Ideals.
Absolutely and infuriatingly inane drivvel that deserves to be highlighted in the public eye as often as possible to counter the rampant stupidity that is broadcasted by people who talk about things on those terms.
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
