Re: [Marxism] The tentacles of the creationist movement

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The promotion of this hateful garbage is nothing more than a ploy to
institutionalise the most abstract and fanatical moralism in a decadent
imperialist age. The self-appointed and most prominent representatives of
this religious tripe will, handily enough, be the same scumbags touting for
plunder, war, rape and genocide. When the State (with its faith-based
programs and other unconstitutional schemes) has sufficiently assured people
that they may not understand the world in anything but the crudest and most
far out imaginings, it can be further assured of those peoples' ineffective
passivity. 'Alternative' christians might prefer handwringing and lighting
candles (having safely jettisoned the multiple justifications of the
aforementioned plunder, war and genocide in their holy texts) to association
with increasingly public religious dogma (they don't mind it in the comfort
of their own homes). But they will surely perpetuate the same fanatical
moralism albeit in a more humane (if not human) way.



> NY Times, August 21, 2005
> Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive
> By JODI WILGOREN

> SEATTLE - When President Bush plunged into the debate over the teaching of
> evolution this month, saying, "both sides ought to be properly taught," he
> seemed to be reading from the playbook of the Discovery Institute, the
> conservative think tank here that is at the helm of this newly volatile
> frontier in the nation's culture wars.

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