If you cannot convince them, confuse them. - Harry S Truman

I think this quote demonstrates why there’s such pressure nowadays to get “intelligent design” taught in the classroom.

The religious right (right, of course, being the side of the political spectrum, not as another word for “correct”) knows it can never win at this point against science, so it’s trying to get into the classroom and just terrorize it.

They want kids to be so utterly confused about things that they’ll be completely unable to weight the pros and cons of given arguments, and, throwing up their hands in frustration, they may turn to religion, or at least become agnostic.

And maybe, just maybe, those agnostic kids won’t care too much if they put the 10 commandments in a court building, or if Bush sits there saying “God bless” all the time.

I think getting rid of the boarders between church and state is the ultimate goal of all this, giving religious figures direct influence on the state and what it does.

That’s all we need, a religious government controlling the most powerful military in the known universe.

Still think the bird flu is scary? I don’t. Not compared to the religious right in the US.