12-19-2016, 03:29 PM
(12-19-2016, 02:40 PM)radind Wrote:(12-19-2016, 12:35 PM)David Horn Wrote:(12-19-2016, 12:23 PM)radind Wrote: I will give my first grades in 7 months.
OK, but what criteria will you use? I'm interested in what you think is lacking and what is being done to excess.
Too much political correctness and religious freedom under attack.
The freedom of religion under attack is the freedom of religious people to avoid being ridiculed for saying absurd stuff
Example:
This summer I took a trip to Lake Superior, and I noticed that its shore has a paucity of obvious life in contrast to the typical seashore. The shore has been unglaciated for about 8000 years (but the biblical chronology says that the Earth is only 6000 or so years old, so I must be wrong) and evolution has not allowed the stereotypically-rich fauna of ocean shores and even fresh-water lakes of southern Michigan to form. (But evolution is a fraud -- the Bible says so!). So why did God neglect to create much life for Lake Superior? (Shame on you, blasphemer!)
The truth -- Lake Superior is a hard place for even fresh-water life to get there. It has had little time in which to evolve.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.