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Let's Welcome HR4796 into existence!
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 (January 4, 2012 at 5:32 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote:(January 4, 2012 at 3:15 pm)tobie Wrote: Things like this is why I love the massive overlap between atheists and physicists. When I said physicist, I intended it to mean someone with an interest in physics. I've only ever met 1 christian physicist ( my current teacher ) and he's probably the most intelligient christian I've met. 
I read the title to this thread thinking there must actually be something good coming out of Congress for a change...
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
 (January 6, 2012 at 5:37 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I read the title to this thread thinking there must actually be something good coming out of Congress for a change... LMAO!!!! Ahhh...... no. Congress' current accomplishment is the republicans whining about Obama doing things that every president before him did more of - recess appointments. This time though it's because they tried to be "technically" in session but Obama actually grew a spine and did something good for us (as opposed to taking our right to a fair trial or some other tomfoolery.)
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 |
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