"The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge. Did Darrow, in the course of his dreadful bombardment of Bryan, drop a few shells, incidentally, into measurably cleaner camps? Then let the garrisons of those camps look to their defenses. They are free to shoot back. But they can't disarm their enemy."
-- H L Mencken, "Aftermath" (coverage of the Scopes Trial) The Baltimore Evening Sun, (September 14, 1925)
That "superstition" he's mentioning? Yeah, it's a literal interpretation of Genesis so utterly void of thought or value that even Augustine warned against it 1600 years ago.
"Yeah, it's a literal interpretation of Genesis so utterly void of thought or value that even Augustine warned against it 1600 years ago.
The ultimate intent of the evolutionists is not the destruction of the myths and fables in the OT, but the destruction of Christianity as a political force and of its culture, heritage, works of art and demographic numbers through illegal and legal immigration and birth rates.
It is from an organized political force of Christianity point of view that I'm arguing against the evolutionists (read: ant-Christians) and not from a divine point of view.
Evolutionists, ie civil libertarians, must realize that the epidemic, criminal anti-Christian behavior toward European Americans and Western Culture will result in laws and the destruction of civil liberties for all. Believers in compassion, charity, brotherhood and love must also understand that these attributes are most possible and most practiced and appreciated in Western monocultural societies, not muticultural ones.
We Christian Eropean-Americans are in a struggle for our heritage, culture, freedom and very existence, and the anti-Christians are our enemies. Evolution is anti-Christian.
Silly boy, St Augustine of Hippo had nothing to do with the development of Western European Culture.
That was created, in its entirety, by rustic American preachers, about a century ago.