Interesting article on the trial in Pennsylvania over teaching Unintelligent Fairy Tales in HS biology. But the most interesting part of the article was about the founder of the Thomas More Law Center, Richard Thompson. Here's Thompson:
Mr. Thompson's major argument in defending the board is that intelligent design is not religion, but science. He is, however, absolutely open about his own religious motivations.
During the lunch break on Thursday, Mr. Thompson said he founded the law center to defend Christians who he thought were losing the culture wars. The center was initially financed by Thomas Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza. Both men are Roman Catholics.
"There are two worldviews that are in conflict," Mr. Thompson said. "I do feel that even though Christians are 86 percent of the population, they have become second-class citizens."
Yeah. They're victims alright. Victims of their own delusional state of mind. I'm not quite sure how anything other than a delusion would make him think he's a second class citizen? I guess that he gets first-class citizenship when we all bend to his will and kiss the Ring o'Ratzi d'Nazi.
Then and only then will he be spared the nagging fear of becoming the next meal for the lions in the coliseum, I guess. Haven't we heard this tune before?
posted by Jo Fish on 10.03.05 at 01:08 PM
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Yep. It's so shameful how Christians are persecuted in this country....
Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion.... perhaps around their necks? And maybe--dare I dream it?--maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.
--Jon Stewart
Nicely put! Hard to put away the persecution complex, it's so handy for pogroms and witch hunting and stuff.
posted by: ellroon on 10.04.05 at 03:25 PM [permalink]
the funniest part of the article is the fact that both of them are roman catholics and the fact that pope(s) for the past 35 years have said that evolution is absolutely compatible with the catholic religion.
the official catholic doctrine is that the whole adam/ eve thing is a parable much like jesus used parables to put forth complex ideas. whenever i hear fellow catholics deny evolution, it makes me want to jump through a f'n window. they don't even know the teachings of their own religion.
dem vet, keep up the good work.
posted by: matt on 10.05.05 at 08:01 PM [permalink]
ID/creationism is simply religious correctness (as opposed to political correctness). Christians claim victim hood anytime they receive criticism, anytime something/someone disagrees with their worldview. ID isn't science, not even close. It is a political movement to force the teaching of Genesis in the nation's schools. These folk and their ilk are trying to force their crap down the throats of everyone else's children. The result will be a nation of scientific ignoramuses (as a country we're already 95% of the way there!). To become a credible science it must run the gauntlet that all other scientific ideas must run through... and survive. Notice that none, zero, zip scientists support this idea unless they are Bible-believing Christians. And I certainly use the term 'scientists' in their case because they have abandoned the scientific evidence... and evidence is EVERYTHING!!!! Their ploy is to separate everyone into two categories: creationists and evolutionists, which is meant to water down the findings of biology, cosmology, physics, geology, astronomy, chemistry, etc. which support an old age for the Earth. Then they come up with some really bad arguments against evolution and an old universe in order to sound scientific. ALL the debates I've heard center on attacking and defending evolution. Just once I'd love to hear a debate where creationism is attacked and can only be defended on its own merit, which is NONE... pure fun!!!!!
