I’d love to get this verified. The congressman denied it but a “constituent says” he did it under authority. Hmmm…
www.ajc.comAnti-evolution memo stirs controversyBy Jeremy Redmon | Thursday, February 15, 2007, 01:37 PMThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionThe Anti-Defamation League is calling on state Rep. Ben Bridges to apologize for a memo distributed under his name that says the teaching of evolution should be banned in public schools because it is a religious deception stemming from an ancient Jewish sect.Bridges (R-Cleveland) denies having anything to do with the memo. But one of his constituents said he wrote the memo with Bridges? approval before it was recently distributed to lawmakers in several states, including Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio.?Indisputable evidence ? long hidden but now available to everyone ? demonstrates conclusively that so-called ?secular evolution science? is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternate ?creation scenario? of the Pharisee Religion,? the memo says. ?This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic ?holy book? Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.?The memo calls on lawmakers to introduce legislation that would end the teaching of evolution in public schools because it is ?a deception that is causing incalculable harm to every student and every truth-loving citizen.?It also directs readers to a Web site www.fixedearth.com, which includes model legislation that calls the Kabbala ?a mystic, anti-Christ ?holy book? of the Pharisee Sect of Judaism.? The Web site also declares ?the earth is not rotating ? nor is it going around the sun.?
Get ‘em while they’re young, and you own their minds forever.
With a couple of exceptions, of course, little ‘ol me being one of them.
Yeah, my little school house was full of occasional religious clap-trap that wouldn’t stand the light of the 1st amendment today, and for a while I bought it, but “they” made a “mistake” — they also taught me to think for myself.
Now THAT one made sense to me. Yesterday’s xtian is today’s Freethinker.
Plant the seed of doubt, of critical thinking, of judicious skepticism, and folks, there just might be a chance the world will survive.
I wonder how the Discovery channel goes over in these households?
Maybe they want to outlaw TV, make the kids memorize the bible, and prey five times a day.
Celebrant,
That’s what started me on my path to atheism. They would teach us all the crap about America being the greatest country in the world, all the crap about god, but then they told us about the Socratic Method. That’s the only thing that ever stuck with me.
“a deception that is causing incalculable harm to every student and every truth loving citizen”? That’s just too much isn’t it? Where would we be without folks previewing every iota of info we receive for our own good? I repeat, that’s just too much isn’t it?
Maybe we should all give Rep. Burn Bridges a call Monday.
I think this ties in nicely with the subject. It’s about the Flat Earth Society. Does anyone know if it’s real or not? I’m having a tough time imagining people are that ignorant.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flatearth.html
Apparently this whole story gets a lot messier. I found an article in the St. Petersburg Times on it that says Texas Rep. Warren Chisum gave Ben Bridges this information and then had Marshall Hall, president of the Cornelia, Ga.-based Fair Education Foundation and the developer of the Web site “www.fixedearth.com,” write the memo.
“I regret that these people have been offended, but I didn’t offend them because I didn’t put the memo out,” Bridges told the paper.
Typical republican speak.
Here’s the link to the article:
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/25/News/Flat_earth_society_s_.shtml
To me the most disturbing part of this story isn’t that a Congressman from GA thinks evolution is a jewish religious idea but the fact that this news story didn’t surprise or shock me at all. Isn’t it sad that we are becoming so desensitised to these sorts of things?
If you read enough of their material, you will plainly see that the Flat Earth Society is a joke. Of course nowhere do they come right out and say it’s a joke– the same is true of Landover Baptist Church. As for evolution being a false Pharisaic doctrine, it sounds like some body has latched on to another Jew conspiracy theory.
alex,
Maybe you are in such a state of shock that you don’t even know you’re in shock. Like if you just had your finger chopped off so perfectly and fast that you didn’t even notice it was gone until someone pointed it out to you because it just sliced through the nerve so you didn’t notice it.
sammorjr,
By Cthulhu, I hope you’re right. Just out of curiosity though, which flat earth site did you go to?
evilatheist:
Those nutters are real all right.
I did a post (on my blog) on that a while back.
Not a parody. It’s for real.
A real shame, too.
It’s at http://www.fixedearth.com/
Hey ya know I jist had a thought about a certain congeressperson near here who always gits it all wrong and messes up quites a lot too. But with this particular caddy I hear he ain’t never in his place cause he’s always a putterin or sumthin. I heard he does that maybie 19 times a year or more. He said he’s sorry but don’t ya think we needs to learn him sumpthin? It’s no small wonder he can’t neither learn nor do when he’s so out of there that rascal don’t even come round! Round here they gits all caught up with thins like all day kindergarten and chargin trolls on the byways. What on this here flat earth is thin cummmin to now I ask you? (FYI: I don’t by that business bout no flat earth but I’ll bet ya I know of at least one flat head gov who might git into that funny business. He look like what he need to worry bout is his Rogain stash git en a majer move on in here!)
Cobb Co., GA which is next door to Atlanta, and home to Newt Gingrich, was the site of the recent evolution warning stickers being placed in public school biology textbooks. What is wrong with people down there? These days I really am no longer surprised when I hear a story about some crazy religious nut. Gawd talks to Uncurious George and tells him to go to war, a new museum in KY has exhibits of adam and eve walking around with dinosaurs in eden, pat robertson predicts god will punish Orlando with a meteroite for being gay friendly, and so on. What’s next?
Somewhere someplace far far away, a logic fairie just died on the crapper.
That “museum” in KY is ridiculous. I refuse to go, but it’s an especially sore spot for me because I live about 10 minutes away. It wasn’t until it was completed that we knew the true intention. Everyone locally thought it was going to be a natural history museum, displaying the incredible fossils that have been unearthed in the dozens of sites nearby. What an absolute disappointment. My only hope is that it will fail miserably and the state will get a good deal on the property and put it to better use.
Honestly, the perception of us in KY that we’re backwards, racist, incestuous rednecks wasn’t bad enough. We really needed to do something to etch ’stupid’ onto that list, as well.
oh, that site linked in the article is so ridiculous, I want to rant and rave but I know it would do no good. I find it so ironic that geocentrists would claim that heliocentricity is based on assumptions…
to paraphrase an author I can’t recall “arguing with those who have lost their logic is like giving medicine to the dead”
His rantings expose that the idea of Juedo-Christian values, so often flaunted by our religious right are nonsense.
Not that anyone vaguely familar with history couldn’t tell you that.
TIMx13,
I feel for ya’ man. Whenever I start to feeling down about the backwater town I’m livin’ in, I like to think about places like Louisiana and Mississippi and then things don’t seem so bad anymore.
Seeing as how you’re in KY, you should like this one. What do they do in WV on Halloween? Pump Kin!
Cheers.
Tim, where in KY is this musuem? I live in Springfield and hadn’t heard of it.
It’s in northern KY, near Cincinnati. The town is Petersburg, very near the airport (CVG).
The more I think about it, the more I want to go just to see how bad it is. The only problem I have is the potential admission fee…
thanks, will check it out myself oner day
TIMx13,
“The more I think about it, the more I want to go just to see how bad it is. The only problem I have is the potential admission fee…”
If I were you I definitely wouldn’t go. I admit that I have a great curiosity, but the fact of the matter is that if you went you would be supporting them, and that’s the last thing you want to do.
Now we need to find Mohammed’s bones
No chance. He flew away to heaven on a winged horse ? and believe me, once you’ve flown away on a winged horse, no one is ever going to find you.
Maybe that’s what happened to Hoffa?
DVanWechel,
Those winged horses are sooo yesterday. They really should update to the winged unicorns! Much better ride.
Oh yeah… I smell what you’re steppin’ in. Sweet ride.
Yaah. Know what you mean. We’re still using one of those old chariots of fire, here. Dad is suspicious about the kind of magic it takes to run one of those horses. Could be faerie, he says.
Can’t even sit down, and it is really hard to get the soot out of the angelic white bed sheets that everyone’s wearing these days.
Your friend,
Jesua, ben Jehovah.