The dustup over this post at Pharyngula is something to behold. I'm going to need a shower myself later...

rick,

I know!

"Oh, but he wasn't a REAL Christian" - yeah, he just made public claims of devotion and pity, and rode to political sucess on the support of those who readily believed him, and used the writings and reputation of previous Christian thinkers to advance his agenda...so...Christianity had nothing to do with it, and it's obviously Darwin's fault...right?

or:

"But you are saying Christians are responsible!" Uh...no...the point of the post was that it was rediculous for B.S. et. al to claim it was all the fault of evolutionary biology.

or:

"But I have these quotes from a document that was written by a man who admits he forged it with all these quoted from Hitler that said he hated Christianity!" Uh huh...and the fact that we take what he said in a publicly verified document (Mein Kampf) and public speeches which were recorded by multiple newspapers, captured on fim, and witnessed by thousands over the work of a man who admitted it was a fake is obviously just more "unfairness" by the liberal intellectual elite...TEACH THE CONTROVERSY! LOL!



Feh. Whatever.

Thought you'd like this. David Brin's May 5 post touches on Hitler and Ben Stein. http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/

Thanks Geekgoddess!