Give me liberty or give me death. What say you PatrickHenry? From the famous "Liberty or Death" speech, March 23, 1775:
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves ...
Could just as well have been an impassioned speech against creationism (had Darwin's work existed at that time).
1507 posted on 3/23/02 1:39 AM Hawaii-Aleutian by PatrickHenry
Creationism is tyranny...isn't this 1984ish?
It sure is 1984ish. It is turning the truth upside down. Christianity gave man value. It taught that man was more than a beast. It taught that man was a creature of God, not the servant of some government, country, or another person. It freed mankind from bondage and slavery. It is Godlessness that turns man again into just a beast to be used by others and to be destroyed for some supposedly "higher" purpose at the will of tyrants.