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To: forsnax5
I wasn't picking on you, Fester.

It would not bother me much if you were. What I mean in saying "I don't have any friends" is that I am fully capable of offending everybody on any side of an issue. WRT the issue at hand, Christians who think it is necessary to establish their faith in public schools and atheists who think it is their duty to do the same can take a hike.

Both enjoy, or at least should enjoy, the protections of our Constitution. Therefore both should enjoy a hearing in the public forum. Of all nations of people, we're the ones who should "get it." Judge Jones apparently doesn't, and if there is an overzealous Christian version of this guy, he won't get it either.

133 posted on 12/31/2005 4:37:08 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew

One of the reasons the ultra-left supports teaching evolution...and ONLY evolution...in the public schools is that it fits their political agenda. A godless world where life just sort of happened to come into existence, and then just "evolved" of its own accord into the many lifeforms we see today, including humans, is similar to Marxism. Life is seen as purposeless, godless, and constantly evolving to a higher state. That higher state, of course, is seen as leftism. It's inherent in their use of the word "progressive" to describe their politics. They're more "evolved" than we conservatives are.

This isn't to say that Darwinian theory doesn't include aspects the left dislikes. The left despises natural selection, which is the aspect of Darwinism that is most likely correct. Natural selection produces what the left hates most: natural inequality.

So if the left has some problems with Darwin over the issue of natural selection, why are they so adamant that ONLY Darwinian theory be taught to the kiddies?

Here's the answer:

Remember the old "Fairness Doctrine"? It required broadcast media to give equal time to opposing views. This generally stifled OVERT political activism by the media. If Walter Cronkite had endorsed the Democrats or some liberal cause OVERTLY, CBS would have had to give equal time to opposing views, something they didn't want to do. But leftism prevailed in the media by being covert. CBS never officially endorsed the Democrats, but they biased their coverage by their choice of which stories to cover (GOP scandal gets big coverage, Dem scandal gets none) or by the tilt of the news story (if feminists object to a textbook then it's a story about fighting evil "sexism", while if parents dislike a textbook it's a story about "censorship").

By following this template, the liberal media pushed the leftist agenda for decades. They're still doing it, as we see with their grandiose coverage of the so-called Plame CIA leak and their non-coverage of Sandy Berger's archives theft. But with the Fairness Doctrine now gone, conservatives have been able to fight back with alternative media (talk radio, FOX News), and we've also been helped by the internet.

The entire public school system is geared toward denying that natural selection occurs. It's a system based on equality, not excellence. It's also militantly secularist. As occurred with the Fairness Doctrine, the entire public education system is designed to further the left's agenda. The left knows full well that the implications of Darwinism which they dislike will be downplayed or even denied. Can you imagine what would happen to a high school science teacher who delved heavily into the ramifications of natural selection, in terms of equality and inequality? In terms of individual, group, or gender differences? He'd be fired.

So the left knows that their problems with Darwinian theory (natural selection) will be downplayed and overriden by every other aspect of public school education. The Darwinian aspects they like (randomness, godlessness, "progress") will be reinforced by the rest of the school curriculum.

Like the Fairness Doctrine, the current evolution regime in the schools doesn't allow for overtness. It simply establishes a template in which leftism & secularism are taken as a given while conservatism & the existence of God are "outside the mainstream". It's a system they're quite happy with.


174 posted on 01/01/2006 9:11:37 AM PST by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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