If there is a standard I aspire to, it would be to the level of Pharyngula. A quote from one of his posts on Ken Ham and Creationists…
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/06/a_little_sympathy_for_the_snoo.php
“I sympathize with all their secular neighbors most of all. What will happen? They will live in a country where their schools are third-rate, because the creationists will suppress education not just for their own kids, but for everyone else’s, too. They will see their school boards populated with the products of such fare as the Creation “Museum”, and they will get to vote in elections where their options are Insane-Fundie-Wackjob vs. Slightly-Less-Crazy-God-Botherer. And the lesser-of-two-evils won’t always win, because their neighbors all think the fundier, the better.
I sympathize because they are all missing the awesomeness of reality for the awfulness of some narrow Bronze Age theocratic bullshit.
But there are also some for whom I have no sympathy at all.
I have zero sympathy for intelligent people who stand before a grandiose monument to lies, an institution that is anti-scientific, anti-rational, and ultimately anti-human, in a place where children are being actively miseducated, an edifice dedicated to an abiding intellectual evil, and choose to complain about how those ghastly atheists are ruining everything.
Those people can just fuck off.”
Thank you PZ. :)
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June 18, 2009 at 11:00 am
The Intransigent One
Shoot for the stars and even if you fall short you may get the moon!
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June 18, 2009 at 12:07 pm
mcoville
your goals are set a bit low there. You can do better than coping and pasting your arguments over and over again, like PZ does.
I always remember what my sociology teacher told me once, “Profanity is a weak mind trying to express itself.”
Do yourself a favor, make it a goal to be your own man and not idealize another fallible man, everyone that does end up disappointed in the end when the veil falls.
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