Anytime anyone disagrees with our Socialist elite they're branded as ignorant and bigoted. No one is allowed to disagree with them on any subject; and most especially the matter of Origins. Their long campaign to force everyone to accept their views continues on relentlessly.
Quotes and comments;
A. 'Britain is giving a “birthday present to Darwin,” wrote Andrew Copson for The Guardian, in the form of national curriculum for primary schools that will mention evolution for the first time – and prohibit teaching of creationism or intelligent design in science lessons. [1.]
- Notice how the Darwinian elite equate themselves with Britain itself. Britain of course isn't a person and can't hand out any birthday presents. (Let alone to some bones.)
B. 'The addition of evolution to elementary school curriculum was in response to a letter promoted by the British Humanist Association and signed by “scientists and experts.”
“Those who care about public reason are routinely shocked by opinion polls and surveys showing high levels of credence given to the idea of intelligent design. The most recent poll purported to demonstrate that a majority of Britons think that it should be taught alongside evolution in schools.
To solve this problem, we have to know what causes it and there are two reasons why you might prefer the idea of intelligent design to that of evolution." [1.]
- Problem? What problem? There's no problem here; only one manufactured by an atheist elite. This is called manufacturing problems. Here's how it works. Some elitist sees something he doesn't like. He then calls this a problem, and gets others in his tribe to call it a problem. To get people to pay attention they claim this 'problem' will have negative consequences for the country and maybe the world, and who knows... maybe even the universe. Then you ask your friends in Government to write some legislation forcing everyone to accept the 'solution' you've created to solve this 'problem' that is now threatening the well being of the entire planet (and perhaps the moon as well).
What this person really wants is for it to be illegal for anyone to hold a different view on origins than his own. (This sounds very much like the Thirty Years war to me; where it was illegal to hold certain theological views.)
Who cares what the majority of people think? Who cares who pays the taxes; who cares who has to fight the wars; who cares who makes the country function? That doesn't matter; all that matters is that the atheist elite get their way and force everyone to accept their ideas, and to brainwash children as they see fit. That's all that matters. (And people don't obey their masters, civilization will collapse, and the moon and stars will go out.)
B. "You may do so because your prior ideological convictions, mostly to do with religious belief, simply don’t allow you to accept the evidence that is presented to you. Or you may do so because you genuinely do not know of the evidence for evolution, have never had it explained to you, or because you just don’t understand it. In a society as decreasingly religious as England, it is impossible to believe that most of the people who do not accept evolution are motivated by ideology rather than ignorance. This means that the best way to solve the problem is through better education and that is what makes the inclusion of evolution in the science curriculum as early as possible so important.''
- I find that so repellent I don't have words for it. What he's saying is that if you're not an atheist it's because you're ignorant.
It apparently has never occurred to this savior of the nation, that he has biases of his own. He appears too self-deluded to contemplate such a thing. How a materialist, atheist and evolutionist can imagine (even for a second) he has no ideological convictions beggars the imagination.
How is such delusion possible? Is it a lack of educational training? Has he studied no philosophy? no logic? (Perhaps this is a 'problem' that needs to be fixed. Perhaps we need to get the government to force students to study logic and philosophy. A person can only be so self-deluded for two reasons; either it's a lack of education, or it's a refusal to accept the evidence.)
We see the old game of 'what you believe is religion, and what I believe is science'. This pretense has been tiresome for a long time. What this person has, and what people who believe in creation have, is a worldview. What we have here is not religion (whatever that means or doesn't mean) vs science; but one wview vs another wview.
I find it offensive to hear people claim I only believe in creation because I refuse to accept the evidence. This is schoolboy rhetoric. I'm well acquainted with the evidence as set out by all sides. (I'm sure I know the issues at least as well as Mr. Copson.) It's the height of incivility to claim people who don't agree with you are merely ignorant. (Did Frederick Hayek disagree with Marx because he was ignorant?)
What Mr. Copson is advocating isn't education (which we already have) but brainwashing. He's such a militant ideologue that he's willing to ignore the needs, abilities and desires of children and parents completely. They don't matter. All that matters is that everyone believes exactly the same things he does. (Is he willing to enforce all of his beliefs on people or only those relating to origins? How far is he willing to go to force everyone to march to the same drum beat?)
If you want to know where all this tyranny is headed all you have to do is look at the sad case of East Germany. While the country existed it was held up by our Leftists as some kind of utopia; not a word was spoken against it. In reality it was hell on earth, where every aspect of life (including science) was controlled by state bureaucrats. To this day our Socialist elite refuses to discusses the subject. Where are the books? Where are the movies? Where's the discussion? It's like no such place ever existed. [2.]
Summary; in the end the Socialists always come for your children. They offer a great many things, and all they want is your liberty, your soul (conscience) and your children.
Notes;
1. Darwin Marketed to Kids: Creation/Evolution Headlines 11/10/2009
2. How a Christian Family Stood Up to Tyranny: Creation/Evolution Headlines 11/10/2009
'When the Berlin wall fell 20 years ago, Dorothee Hubner first dared to think, “Are we allowed to leave and finally be free?” Her story and that of her parents Gerhard and Gertraude, scientists trapped in East Germany, was told by Andrew Curry, a freelance writer, in Science.
As an example of how scientists were impacted by socialist tyranny in East Germany;
"The pressure went beyond career and travel to petty indignities. Party members were given the best lab times. Non–party members could only use equipment between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m.," Gerhard recalls.
- This at least is better than how creationists are currently treated, as they get no lab time at all in many or most cases.