Teach the controversy, uh-huh

[mahnmut]

People's willful attempts to keep themselves ignorant has never stopped boggling me.

Automatically filling the blank spots that still remain here and there in our knowledge about many things - with a deity of some sorts - reminds me of the fairy tales we often tell our very young kids whenever they ask "daddy, where did I come from?" Then we start talking about bees and birds and everything is all right. Funny, many people choose to remain in eternal childhood forever. It would've remained just funny-full-stop, unless entire groups of those eventually started pushing their ignorant agenda onto the rest of society and turn this into a political issue, now that's where things turn ugly.

Teach the controversy is a nice way to move the goalposts of free speech into a slippery area. By the same logic, why not teach Astrology in class? Many people trust it, don't they?

Comments

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

"I must agree that teaching evolution in the schools is both senseless and a bad precedent"

Not what you intended to say?

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Yep. I meant that "teaching religious nonsense and propaganda in the schools is both senseless and a bad precedent." The "Religious Right" is a totalitarian disaster waiting to happen. People didn't think Ayatollah Khomeini would ever be more than the thorn in the Shah's flesh, either.