WHY PEOPLE THINK CONSERVATIVES ARE IDIOTS (Interesting Read from Neal Boortz)

Neal Boortz Blog ^ | 3/26/07 | Nel Boortz

[Dead Corpse]

Keep reading. It's the next section down that Boortz is talking about.

[Oliver Optic]

It's also worth noting that irreligious zealots ... not religious zealots ... were responsible for the great bloodbaths and totalitarian assaults on freedom in the twentieth century.

[adorno]

You mean like Reagan?

Did Reagan support dumb ideas like those of that former democrat?

[Dead Corpse]

Not even sure if that quote is genuine, as I've heard it elsewhere a few times, but I still like it. ;-)

[Alberta's Child]

The notion that Christians in the Middle Ages believed in a flat earth is a myth. There may have been plenty of ignorant people who believed that, but most learned people who were familiar with the work of Greek and Egyptian mathematicians and astronomers would have known that the earth is round. In fact, a Greek mathematician/astronomer named Eratosthenes even computed the circumference of the earth with a remarkable degree fo accuracy -- and that was in about 200 B.C.

The dispute over the geocentric (earth-centered) vs. heliocentric (sun-centered) solar system took much longer to resolve, and the irony was that the geocentric theory was actually "correct" based on the science as it was understood at the time (not religion). Technically, the scientific community never really proved the heliocentric nature of the solar system until the first successful measurements of a phenomenon called "stellar parallax" (the movement of stars in relation to each other as the earth moves from one point in its orbit to a point 180 degrees away in six months) were made by Friedrich Bessel in 1838.

[MACVSOG68]

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.

Extremism and conservatism are mutually exclusive concepts. Some various types of extremists make regular appearances here on FR, and are immediately obvious. But they love to take on the mantra of "conservative" in spite of the incongruity of the two. The MSM is a willing co-conspirator because it is then easy to link these "conservatives" with Republicans. But in fact conservatives reject extremism whether it is from the RR or any other faction that repudiates rationality and reasonableness.

[ichabod1]

You mean the earth doesn't revolve around ME!?!?

[Young Scholar]

They have that right. But it certainly makes their positions worthy of ridicule.

[Dead Corpse]

Is he wrong? Is the Earth really flat? Is it wrong to mock those who think the Earth is flat or to point out their mistake?

[jpl]

Yes, big surprise, there are some stupid and ignorant conservatives out there.

But I'd bet that for every self-identified conservative who believes that modern humans and dinosaurs were on Earth at the same time, there's probably two self-identified liberals who believe the moon landings were a hoax and that 9/11 was an inside job, so both sides can certainly play this game.

[theDentist]

No silly. It revolves and evolves around Obama this week.

[colorado tanker]

Well, give me time. I'm still getting used to this idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun. :-))

[Gil4]

Wow, it does say that. I never noticed it before. That obviously didn't happen, so we best pitch the whole book. < /sarcasm>

It has been addressed - read the articles. If you have an intelligent critique, I'd be glad to hear it. If all you have are insults, rude insinuations, and the heroic slaying of straw men, don't waste my time.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i3/longday.asp

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/geocentrism.asp

[DB]

When it flies in the face of observable fact - it deserves to be ridiculed whatever it is labeled.

[Dead Corpse]

LOL...

[SoCal Pubbie]

Some feminists believe that all male/female intercourse is rape and that men and women are identical except for a few minor details of genitalia.

[garv]

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

[Sherman Logan]

Not to my knowledge. But he was a former Democrat.

[Alberta's Child]

Most of what passes for "science education" these days isn't really educational at all. And I'm not even talking about the encroachment of politics into scientific fields . . . I'm referring to the lack of a basic understanding of the scientific method that seems to be commonplace in education these days.