Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 942 Editor's Choice: 19
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As to Cary
[Read the article: The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He is basically saying that you should buck up and shut up when it comes to someone teaching kids lies.
This is because Cary is a contemptable person who lacks anything of a spine. He doesn't believe so much in the idea of you know, actually telling the truth or being able to look at himself in the mirror in the morning, as he does "getting along."
In the civil rights era, he would have been the black guy protesting at other black guys for going and fighting for their right to not get lynched. He would have advised people at the time to simply "get along."
The same can be said during any era of major social change - don't challenge the bad stuff just "get along." Don't challenge lies, just "get along." Pretty much like Nevale Chamberlain got along with Hitler.
Something is either verified by real physical evidence or it is not. Children have a right to see the evidence and the best scientific knowledge we can give them, by not teaching them science in science classrooms what your friend is doing is helping to create a Christian underclass, that will be disabled through ignorance once it grows up.
When people defend teaching bullshit in the name of diversity they are basically treating people of other religions or even their same religion like they are animals in a zoo, it is not respectful of other cultures to agree with them "Doing their thing" if that is wrong, because you are turning your neighbours into nothing but animals in a zoo.
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sajwan
[Read the article: Clinton supporters push back against NARAL endorsement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The advantage is: Obama vs McCain. A race where a lot of "Feminists" are actively saying they are going to vote McCain.
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george1732
[Read the article: The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Aztecs went for the hearts of their enemy's bravest warriors.
Cary would be safe.
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The Notorious W.E.S.
[Read the article: Clinton supporters push back against NARAL endorsement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of those endorsements if you look at the delegate count on CNN brought 19 delegates with him.
Hillary won 20 delegates in West Virginia and Obama won 8.
So Obama is actually in a better position now than before the West Virginia elections.
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Just to get this out of my system: LW
[Read the article: The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are things you tolerate, and then there are things you don't tolerate.
And one of the things you do not tolerate is someone in a postion of trust abusing that trust.
That is what your friend LW, is contemplating doing. Those kids are going to look up to your friend as a teacher, as someone who is going to guide their education.
Now, some people will argue that if not him, a fundementalist who has never read Darwin will take the same job, and they are right, except for one thing:
Your friend by the sounds of it doesn't believe in creationism, is trying to believe it and is going to end up faking believing it - in order to teach those kids something which will stunt their acedemic growth and hurt their earning ability as they age into a world that knows better.
It is no accident that the Bible Belt has higher poverty levels.
The consequences of what they will learn cannot be easily undone and this is something that if your friend is a decent person, will haunt him as he sees his students go precisely nowhere.
This is not simply an issue of whether your friend believes in God, this is an issue of whether your friend believes in truth. Tell him your feelings on the subject be honest and be blunt, disagreements amongst friends only end friendships when those friendships are weak. This is your friend, advise him against doing something he will regret forever after.
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michaelben
[Read the article: The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Psychology and sociology are both relatively young sciences that touch on those issues.
As to various "spiritual" beliefs which when put into practice have historically worked - it was not belief that made them work - in my honest opinion, I don't think it was belief that really introduced them.
It was very human, very scientific observations of the world around us that then got translated into superstition as people sought easy explanations for why doing things a certain way worked.
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Hhatchet
[Read the article: Clinton supporters push back against NARAL endorsement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sajwan is no hater.
I am a hater, proud of it too. To be a hater you need to hate injustice and incompetence.
No, what Sajwan is is a baiter. She/he/it strives to repeat falsehoods and easily debunked bunk in a bid to rouse the anger of those who actually have some grasp of the issues involved.