Inherit the Wind

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is still as relevant today as it was in 1925 with the Scopes trial. One little question leading to eternal doubt is all that we need today, against the same enemy--ignorance. But is there anyone as bold as Clarence Darrow who lives today to ask that question?

With such things as the Creationist Museum and orators such as Pat Robertson, the now departed Jerry Falwell, and Franklin Graham, there appears to be no such person willing to risk their life to counter the loud and attacking rhetoric of the religious right: those who try are preaching to the choir and looking like self-aggrandizing fools to those who might be in doubt.

We cannot win if we cannot use the arguments we have at our disposal to repeatedly strike against the religious right--it is not a question of us patting ourselves on the back and arguing our weighty intellectual "facts" along the way. The right way to handle the religious right is to hammer away with incisive questions for which the right has no answers. They can claim that T-Rex was an herbivore dwelling peaceably with the first human beings, but they will buckle when we can show empirical evidence to the contrary and keep pounding away with their ridiculous drivel about the origin of man. Hell, a single rendering image of what Jesus Christ would look like, in terms of geographical origin, makes their WASPish Christ look like a mockery of the truth, and a defamation of over half the population of the world at that time.

Have we gotten so politically "correct" that we have allowed the religious right to run over every non-Christian belief in the world ? Or do we still have the courage to show that we won't tolerate their pompous and illiterate shit and allow them to put the United States on a lower world academic rung? We cannot and must not give them any further ability to dictate our educational standards--indeed, while they may practice their narrow-minded detritus in their own lives, separation of church and state must prevail in making their views limited in scope nationwide.