From: Charles Roghair (ctr@pacificpartssales.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 05:25:16 GMT
Hello. Mark:
Where have you gone, Clarence Darrow? Our nation turns its lonely eyes
to you!
On Nov 8, 2004, at 7:44 PM, Mark Steven Heyman wrote:
> A
> high school teaching Creationism, as backward as this would be,
> wouldn't impair our children's ability to think nearly so much as
> what passes for United States History. How come people don't get all
> bunged up about that, I wonder?
The sort of folks, beacons of civility in a dark fundamentalist
hillbilly wasteland, who raise their voices to protest such an obvious
misappropriation of public education choose their battles even while
they know a reasonable conversation is beyond the possible as said
hillbillies always have the option of backing they're pulp with mythic,
Bible fantasy.
For the love of Mike, didn't they settle all that nonsense at the
Scope's Monkey Trial? Or was that just a movie I fantasized actually
happened?
msh:
Even a moderately bright student will
detect the sillyness of Creation v Evolution. What's spooky in its
subtlety is that that same student will graduate believing that the
United States Government (owned and operated by the Fortune 500) acts
everywhere and always in the best interest of of its citizens and all
of mankind.
Children are inclined to trust their parents, first and foremost.
Beyond that, at least half of this country's high school population
still harbors authority issues, not the least which being government
authorities.
Presumably, the brighter high school students go on to college to join
what is arguably the least likely of this nation's sub-cultures to
believe anything with even a whiff of conventional, main-stream
American approval.
The students that can't get into to college or drop out of high school
before graduation go to, well, Wisconsin, I guess.
And then they go to church every Sunday unless the Packers are on.
Eventually, they just go on Christmas and Easter, but, they do go to
church! And then heaven apparently.
"C & E Catholics," they used to call 'em at Saints Simon & Jude.
Best regards,
Chuck
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