India drops teaching Evolution and the Periodic Table in schools

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22. The anti-intellectual religions have been doing this forever.

The rot started there. Fascists, many who really don't care about religion one way or another, manipulate these religious fools for their own purposes, even playing one religious faction against another. The Nazis turned "conservative" Lutherans and Catholics against "The Jews," homosexuals, disabled people, etc. The playbook hasn't changed.

Trump wipes his ass with pages from the Bible every day but these morons love him. Putin is the same sort.

The "monied interests with an agenda" wouldn't have a chance if these anti-intellectual religions and ideologies hadn't prepared such a fertile ground of ignorance for them.

"Tolerance" of these religions is not an admirable quality, especially when certain conservative religious beliefs break through the walls separating church and state and start knocking vulnerable people down and kicking them in the head as an assertion of their twisted "beliefs."

Look, if you believe that your god created everything a few thousand years ago and that all of geology can be explained by the flood that wiped out every creature on earth not saved by Noah, fine, keep that crazy shit to yourself. You are a fucking idiot. Don't weasel your way into my child's classroom. If you consider abortion immoral then don't have one. If you consider same sex marriage immoral, don't marry someone of the same sex. Etc. Etc..

Whatever you do don't inflict your cruel beliefs, your faith in your puny pathetic gods, on the rest of us. (I'm looking at you, "conservative" members of the formerly supreme court, RIP, killed by the republican party.)