Posted on 03/26/2007 1:25:49 PM PDT by NYC Republican
Sorry .. it's true. Liberals love to paint conservatives as being ignorant, stupid, obtuse, mindless, irrational and, on occasion, retarded. For the most part leftists use this "stupid" tactic in order to avoid actually having to intellectually engage with someone who thinks differently than they. After all ... you really don't have to consider the opinions offered by someone who disagrees with you if you can successfully and falsely brand them as ignorant.
Sadly ... many conservatives seem to have dedicated their lives to lending credence to the left's "conservatives are idiots" claim. You will remember several weeks ago I told you about one Georgia Republican (former Democrat) legislator whose campaign chairman sent out some memos and letters promoting legislation to outlaw the teaching of evolution in government schools. The letter referred the reader to the website of "The Fair Education Foundation, Inc." In this website --- and I'm not kidding you here --- you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the earth every 24 hours. Think I'm kidding? Check it our for yourself.
Well .. there's more. Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells us about another website, this one run by Andrew Schlafly, the son of Phyllis Schlafly. Conservapedia pushes the creationism theme with revelations that dinosaurs and humans roamed the Earth at the same time.[video] You'll also learn that atheism has led to a large increase in bestiality. But once again you'll learn that not only is the Earth standing still, but it's actually flat ... and sitting still in space while everything revolves around it.
Tell me .. how do you counter the "conservatives are ignorant" argument, and how do you manage to recruit more people to the cause of lower taxes, less government and more individual responsibility when you have people running around loose calling themselves conservatives, getting elected to office as conservatives, and running websites as conservatives all the while telling us that the earth does not spin on its axis and does not revolve around the Sun .. and that everything in the known universe revolves around the Earth?
If true conservatives really want to expand their philosophy and mount a sustained movement that just might save individualism, freedom and economic liberty --- they had better jettison these zealot nut-cases .... and FAST.
This all sure makes me glad to be a Libertarian.
Yes. But is he wrong? Being shameless is one thing, being wrong quite something else.
Boortz finds it easy to smear consewrvatism by pointing to a couple of 'strained gnats' ... Boortz would sacrifice the nation if there was a chance that Libertarians could come to power; he has that in common with the democrats, BTW.
The Sioux now live in the Dakotas. They didn't use to.
The Sauk and Fox tribes originally lived along the St. Lawrence, moving to what is now WI around 1700.
The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico apparently are descended from the Anasazi who lived farther north and west.
The Navajo and Apache are related to the Cree and other Athabaskan tribes of Canada.
The Tuscarora left North Carolina after 1715 and moved to New York, becoming the sixth Nation of the Iroquous.
Many other tribes migrated long distances.
McCain
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No wonder they think we're idiots.
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Good point.
But their beliefs are treated with respect.
I have no problem with refusing to allow creationism to replace more scientific theories. My problem is that I see no reason why we must deride the sincere beliefs of others.
"Don’t present tribal creation stories as “myths” or “legends.”"
"Don’t teach the Bering Strait theory as fact. Using the term, “most scientists believe,” is fine, but also present the fact that most tribal histories place them in their traditional locations and this is also a valid “theory.”"
Could similar respect be given to those who believe the Bible stories?
I have to disagree. I listened to his rant this morning and felt he was making a mountain out of a molehill. There can't be more than a few people who believe in a flat earth, etc. I am nearly 70 years old and have travelled the U.S. for decades. I have worked around people of almost every walk of life. A large majority of these people consider themselves Christians. Many of my friends and acquaintances are what you could call "devout Christians." Never in my life have I heard anyone I have come in contact with express the beliefs presented on these web sites. Never in my life have I ever heard any Christian express support for a theocracy. Boortz sounded to me like an angry atheist just trying to work up something over nothing.
I notice the man will not allow anyone to bring up abortion on his talk show, but he sure did today. I suppose if a woman is raped, it is the resulting baby's fault and it deserves to be killed. At least Boortz thinks so.
Which attacks are those? Is this the whole CREVO thing? If so, sorry... not interested.
They are idiots, which is the one thing they have in common with liberals.
Conservatives are fatter and lazier now (as liberals were in the post-New Deal era), because they haven't had to be as trim and focused as they needed to be in the Cold War era. It's not a permanent problem, but things will get worse before they start getting better.
And, no, libertarians aren't immune to the things that effect liberals and conservatives and everyone else. You've only got to visit lewrockwell.com to realize that they have their own lunatic fringe.
Lol. Oh, please. So you believe that around the time the constitution was written THEN the amerinds somehow appeared on this continent?
I think you've had enough tea for today, Buzz...
Have you followed the Cre-Evo threads on FR over the years?
Yeah, but unlike Liberals, only a very few Conservatives are nutjobs.
stupidity knows no boundries or... dumbasses on both sides.
Liberals think conservatives are idiots because liberals only understand feeeeeelings. Conservatives generally base their opinions on facts, and liberals don't have the foggiest idea how to process that.
Yes, when he believed he needed the Southern Christians who had lost their power base and joined the Republican Party, which of course didn't help his image of a mainstream conservative.
I assume you are aware of his change of beliefs toward extremism as he grew older? Perhaps in his earlier days, it was "any port in a storm".
Those inbread conservatives! They can't even count to ten. They can count up to five on their right hand but when it comes to counting on the left, they can't stomach anything that has to do with the left.
/sarcasm.
It makes it easier for them (meaning those who like to believe they operate solely on logic and science) to justify disbelief in their own minds if they can marginalize those who adhere to the Christian faith. Thankfully, not all who do not adhere to the Christian faith behave that way.
>>>"... you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the earth every 24 hours."<<<
I read this somewhere else a long time ago. I believe it was in one of the Apocrypha.
>>>I wonder what things would look like if it were true.<<<
It is theoretically possible. But the sun would be required to circle the earth at (PI*D = 292 million miles/day * 1 day/24 hours =) 12.17 million miles per hour. And the sun is extremely close to us, cosmologically speaking. The nearest star, which is about 4 light years away (or about 23.5 trillion miles if my math is correct), would be circling at speeds of about 3 trillion miles per hour. Think of the speed required for the most distant objects that are billions of light years away.
I have to go with the "earth revolving around the sun" theory.
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