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RandySF

(58,823 posts) Fri Sep 19, 2014, 11:09 PM Sep 2014

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ISIS and Christian fundamentalists can agree: Charles Darwin is bad.

ISIS and Christian fundamentalists can agree on something: Charles Darwin is bad. In Mosul, Iraql, the militants have explicitly banned teaching the theory of evolution in new school curriculums, despite the fact that it wasn't taught in Iraq previously. The terrorists have also cut history, literature, art, music and Christianity classes from schools. Many parents have been keeping their children out of class as a form of resistance to the new academic programs.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/09/15/isis-bans-teaching-evolution.html

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ISIS and Christian fundamentalists can agree: Charles Darwin is bad. (Original Post) RandySF Sep 2014 OP

Corollary: fundamentalism is destroying the planet. grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #1

Fundamentalism is not safeinOhio Sep 2014 #2

And yet evolution continues on even though they don't believe in it.... Tikki Sep 2014 #3

Hands across the water. n/t. bvf Sep 2014 #4

Two sides of the same coin. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #5

grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts)

1. Corollary: fundamentalism is destroying the planet.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Sep 19, 2014, 11:35 PM

Sep 2014

safeinOhio

(32,677 posts)

2. Fundamentalism is not

Reply to grahamhgreen (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 19, 2014, 11:38 PM

Sep 2014

fun and is mental.

Tikki

(14,557 posts)

3. And yet evolution continues on even though they don't believe in it....

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Sep 19, 2014, 11:39 PM

Sep 2014

Tikki

bvf

(6,604 posts)

4. Hands across the water. n/t.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2014, 12:27 AM

Sep 2014

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)

5. Two sides of the same coin.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat Sep 20, 2014, 05:30 AM

Sep 2014

We need a resurgence of traditional secular, universal values.

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