Reply #2: Well, you know [View All]

it seems to me that the current situation is pretty much the same--all the little fundies just continue to be woefully ignorant, and those who have their own thoughts about things are the ones who have wanted more knowledge, thus insuring that the "snake" of learning continues.

they can stay as ignorant as they want to--just don't let them have any kind of jobs that require some knowledge and skills.


I've bitched and moaned about the effect this idiocy had on my friend, but it still makes me shudder knowing that someone like her could accept all this crap, and allow themselves to piss away the higher learning she went through to get her Masters. I couldn't finish my college education because I was unable to afford it--to think someone could just let it go in favor of a myth astounds me.

However, I've seen other cretinists (a new term I caught tonight to use!) justify using science to their own end, in one case to have more fundie babies by fertilization--in this case, a woman whose father introduced her to anti-choice demonstrations. Her mother died when she was younger, and it seems to me her "doctor" father had to have his head screwed on a little too tightly to go on such protests--how can a fundie, whose work is in medicine, be so absorbed in a literal interpretation of the bible, when in the medical profession? It boggles my mind to think of some of the things in the bible which have to be rejected because of modern discoveries, and yet they still somehow can believe in its inerrancy? yikes1