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.
Keep reading. It's the next section down that Boortz is talking about.
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.
Not even sure if that quote is genuine, as I've heard it elsewhere a few times, but I still like it. ;-)
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.
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.
You mean the earth doesn't revolve around ME!?!?
They have that right. But it certainly makes their positions worthy of ridicule.
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?
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.
No silly. It revolves and evolves around Obama this week.
Well, give me time. I'm still getting used to this idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun. :-))
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
LOL...
Barry Goldwater
Not to my knowledge. But he was a former Democrat.
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.
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