2008-07-24 Anti-Catholicism Finds a Home at University of Minnesota

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{{#vardefine:keylist|}}{{#vardefine:Date|2008-07-24}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Date}}{{#vardefine:Date.disp|2008-07-24}}{{#vardefine:Date.disp|[[{{#var:Date}}]]}}{{#vardefine:Topics|\PZ Myers\2008 sacred wafer scandal\Discovery Institute/posts\Bruce Chapman/writings}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Topics}}{{#vardefine:Topics.disp|\PZ Myers\2008 sacred wafer scandal\Discovery Institute/posts\Bruce Chapman/writings}}{{#vardefine:URL|http://www.discovery.org/blogs/discoveryblog/2008/07/anticatholicism_finds_a_home_a_1.php}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\URL}}{{#vardefine:URL.disp|http://www.discovery.org/blogs/discoveryblog/2008/07/anticatholicism_finds_a_home_a_1.php}}{{#vardefine:Title|Anti-Catholicism Finds a Home at University of Minnesota}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Title}}{{#vardefine:Title.disp|Anti-Catholicism Finds a Home at University of Minnesota}}{{#vardefine:Text|“What does offend him is that a large number of people have emailed him to protest and denounce him. He also says he has been threatened physically. If so, shame on anyone who did so. Even threats of that sort are against Christian teaching, not to mention stupid and possibly illegal. .. However, I have been threatened for far, far less--just expressing dissenting views on evolution. .. Words physically weigh less than the consecrated Host. They are "nothing". And yet words that offend Myers and his fellow Darwinist apparatchiki can drive them to deeds of vigorous punishment. Restraint and scholarly good will are for other people. The mere words that Darwin doubters have raised in schoolrooms and lecture halls incite P. Z. Myers to call for punishments of flunking for students, expulsion for graduate students and firings for professors. .. So words apparently matter in those cases. What gets thrown in the trash then are normal rules of civilized discourse, followed by people's careers.” Wrong, but eloquent and persuasive. Where are all these evolutionist threats documented? What's wrong with "expelling" people for teaching bad science?}}{{#vardefine:keylist|{{#var:keylist}}\Text}}{{#vardefine:Text.disp|“What does offend him is that a large number of people have emailed him to protest and denounce him. He also says he has been threatened physically. If so, shame on anyone who did so. Even threats of that sort are against Christian teaching, not to mention stupid and possibly illegal. .. However, I have been threatened for far, far less--just expressing dissenting views on evolution. .. Words physically weigh less than the consecrated Host. They are "nothing". And yet words that offend Myers and his fellow Darwinist apparatchiki can drive them to deeds of vigorous punishment. Restraint and scholarly good will are for other people. The mere words that Darwin doubters have raised in schoolrooms and lecture halls incite P. Z. Myers to call for punishments of flunking for students, expulsion for graduate students and firings for professors. .. So words apparently matter in those cases. What gets thrown in the trash then are normal rules of civilized discourse, followed by people's careers.” Wrong, but eloquent and persuasive. Where are all these evolutionist threats documented? What's wrong with "expelling" people for teaching bad science?}} [[category:]][[category:#var:Topics}}]]

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