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11. Ignorance is key to control.

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Sun Oct 28, 2012, 05:07 PM

Oct 2012

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I had someone tell me this summer that God is all around us. She referred to her front yard and said: "No one knows how that tree was created" as proof of the divine wonder of God's creation.

I responded that biologists know very well how a tree is created, and just because she doesn't understand something, it doesn't mean it's a mystery to the rest of us.

I then went off on my favorite rant about how Christians burned the ancient library at Alexandria and set mankind back 500 years because they feared science would conflict with their religion. Apparently they still fear that.

"If these book agree with the bible, we have no need for them. If they disagree, they must be destroyed".

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Here's How Some Texans Are Trying To Ruin Science Books [View all] yortsed snacilbuper Oct 2012 OP

Blind, purposeless nothingness? Really? That's the only alternative to seeing exactly what you see, Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2012 #1

"Purpose." That's the core of the conservative mindset. DetlefK Oct 2012 #3

Right. That's why they hate science/data/facts! Their failure to serve the RW purpose. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2012 #14

The far left? oldironside Oct 2012 #2

The far left is all but extinct in the good ole USofA, isn't it? That's how the "center" keeps Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2012 #15

Well, secondvariety Oct 2012 #4

it's what charter scools are designed to do break the public school system then when it's broken leftyohiolib Oct 2012 #6

Longer clip Coyotl Oct 2012 #5

Yup, I really puked my guts out, starting at 2:30 m:s into it when the awful prayer begins n/t progree Oct 2012 #12

Indeed, the Lord's will in "public education" is their goal Coyotl Oct 2012 #13

These people should all be committed to a mental institution. Or incarcerated in prison. AAO Oct 2012 #7

They're worse than the Taliban. xtraxritical Oct 2012 #8

this is unbelievable johnt_1956_55 Oct 2012 #9

These are the simpletons who will destroy America RVN VET Oct 2012 #10

Ignorance is key to control. JohnnyRingo Oct 2012 #11

I used to be a public school teacher and I saw the efforts to destroy public education and I saw Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2012 #16

Dunno, but the South is a net tax-eater, while most of the rest of the country is net tax-payers progree Oct 2012 #17