Letters to the Editor
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Why?
Why "bigjimbo"? Why did you dash my prayer? And what a simple one it was...just for a reprieve from the tired old "flying spaghetti monster".
Didn't you read Gary Kayima's piece today on being polite? You know that phrase's only purpose is to make your opponent look foolish. You know it's an absurdly simplistic characterization of an enormously complex notion (don't believe me? Go to a University Library some time...hell there's at least four here at my secular school solely devoted to theological tracts). Please stop with this whole false dichotomy of "I'm right and you're an idiot", it's petty and divisive and gets us precisely nowhere.
You're smarter than this...
there's those who would use olde timey religion as a wedge issue to rile up hate (and those are worthy of every scrap of scorn one can muster) and there's those that can quite easily live a modern, secular life and still believe in both evolution (and science and representative democracy) and God. When you start tossing around "flying spaghetti monster" you insult the whole mosaic and debase (heh)the whole discussion.
cheers,
p.s. To saintzak and Serai1: The reason your Catholic schools taught evolution is because Catholics believe in evolution. It's one of the nice surprises that came out of the Counter Reformation. Unlike Luther (who was the one that was all about The Scripture being the unadulterated Word of God - which was mainly a way to wrest control away from Rome) The Catholic Church proclaimed at the Council of Trent that they and the Bible were pretty much equal. They did this to keep power, but in a roundabout way, it means that they, unlike the Protestant religions Lutheranism spawned, aren't beholden to Scripture as Truth...so at least we have that going for us (to quote caddyshack ;)