Letters to the Editor
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Pathetic.
A lot of words have been spilled on this story. But the only which matters is "pathetic." It is pathetic that in what was once a nation wherein science was respected and trusted, a museum like this could raise 27 million.
It is pathetic that we rank only behind Turkey in the number of people who disbelieve evolution. It is sad and pathetic that we are allowing our scientific progress, once our greatest asset, to fall behind the rest of the globe in deference to this same group of troglodytes.
How long will this mockery go on? How long will we allow the scientific future to be determined by a group of people retarded in every sense? How long will those with arrogant pride in their ignorance be allowed to guide our educational system, to dumb it down until we are a neo-Spartan nation?
Because that is the true and basic end to all of this: to make America a stupid, arrogant, but powerful warrior nation. And not merely a warrior nation, a warrior nation carrying the banner of radical Christianity. Clearly these people wish for us to fall back into a more technologically advanced Dark Ages; to lead us on a long-promised, global Biblical rampage, bringing destruction and conversion by fire to all nations which will not tremble, which will not immediately bow to our might and righteous message.
This is where "pathetic" returns to the conversation, because these fever dreams of armed and ignorant hoards overrunning those of more rational, less or no faith is sad, but that a great and proto-glorious nation like America allows these people to put forth their message without gales of laughter is the very definition of the word.