And thus we return to bluepistolero's point -- no doubt you would not make the statement that a Jew offering Scripture was posting "clutter" on the website.
But Christianity continues to be fair game.
No, the agenda of a small band of Christian fundamentalists is a 'target'. Many, many Christians aren't picking a fight here, only some, and it has nothing to do with their 'Christianity' (though from these threads, there is a marked lack of Christian charity among some Creationists).
I have heard no one here challenge the absolute right, enshrined in our Constitution (which I put right up there in the list of great human achievements) to worship freely. But no religion has the right to be smuggled into the science classroom, least of all in the shoddy disguise of ID.
Religious literalism, which starts from doctrine, is not a suitable place from which to commence scientific enquiry. Islamic Fundamentalists in Afghanistan simply abolished science teaching; if we are foolish enough to elevate ID quackery to 'equal time' status with current science, we will in effect do the same
Further on this: that is neither the case, nor the point.
Does anyone recall how, prior to 9/11, the crazed Taliban fundamentalists used the beautiful stone Buddhas of Bamiyan for artillery practice, utterly demolishing them on the grounds they were 'idolatrous' and 'contrary to God'? I'm not a Buddhist, but that mindless act of vandalism broke my heart. Those guys were always barbarians.
The absurd attempt to smuggle the risible sophistry of Creationism into the classroom, to pretend it has any of the merits of science, is to me a comparable act of fundamentalist barbarin vandalism. The sect of religion is immaterial
Entirely hypothetical, because I never see Jews do that. Or Muslims. Or Scientologists or Buddhists or Hindus. Funny, huh?
But Christianity continues to be fair game.
No, Christians reproducing long lists of biblical verses are fair game. It isn't for the purposes of communication: if the purpose were to communicate, you could always cite chapter and verse. We all know where to look up our favorite translation on line. It's to browbeat the heathen, and to parade your own sanctimony. Matthew 23:27.