Welcome back, hearty Time Tourists, to our continued explorations of a 10th-grade textbook for homeschoolers, World History and Cultures In Christian Perspective (A Beka Book, 1997). We're up to the 18th century now, so you know what that means! The Age Of Enlightenment,
Sadly, that's a small dent in a county with 4 million residents. My guesstimate puts this at about 2% of the voting public. But if they keep it up as an ongoing project, with a fresh batch of kids every year, the numbers will start to add up. And they'll have a hell of a mailing list for get-out-the-vote efforts in the future.
At least until the dickhead Republicans try to shut them down.
I look at it, and it looks more like God ain't shit. The "God of the Gaps" seems to be in charge of less and less real estate every year. Pretty soon, he's gonna be stuck hiding somewhere behind the Big Bang, because everything else will be physics.
Feel free to pray to your invisible sky daddy for heads instead of tails, and to praise Jeebus for the 50.00% of the time he answers your prayers (and tremble in wonder at his mysterious ways the other 50.00% of the time.) Just remember that whatever can explain absolutely everything, explains absolutely nothing. If a purple sun rises in a green sky tomorrow, the bible-thumpers will just shrug uselessly and say, &quot;eh, God did it,&quot; accompanied by all the sun-and-sky-related apocalyptic mumbo-jumbo they can dredge out of the Bible. (To be fair, it&#039;s not entirely useless: <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nightfall_%28Asimov_short_story_and_novel%29" target="_blank">to the extent that preachers decide to play it that way</a>, there&#039;s value in calming frightened, ignorant crowds.) The scientists, on the other hand, will have to put a bit more thought into the matter, and it&#039;s their conclusions I&#039;ll be paying attention to ... because they&#039;re the explanations that are going to be useful to me.
I guess these guys (I presume they&#039;re guys, because Dominionists aren&#039;t exactly known for letting womminz out of the kitchen) are big, though unthinking, Van Morrison fans:
<blockquote>Enlightenment, don&#039;t know what it is</blockquote>
(plus, they yearn to be back In The Days Before Rock And Roll)
Sadly, that&#039;s a small dent in a county with 4 million residents. My guesstimate puts this at about 2% of the voting public. But if they keep it up as an ongoing project, with a fresh batch of kids every year, the numbers will start to add up. And they&#039;ll have a hell of a mailing list for get-out-the-vote efforts in the future.
At least until the dickhead Republicans try to shut them down.
Disraeli&#039;s gears were always turning.
I look at it, and it looks more like God ain&#039;t shit. The &quot;God of the Gaps&quot; seems to be in charge of less and less real estate every year. Pretty soon, he&#039;s gonna be stuck hiding somewhere behind the Big Bang, because everything else will be physics.
Feel free to pray to your invisible sky daddy for heads instead of tails, and to praise Jeebus for the 50.00% of the time he answers your prayers (and tremble in wonder at his mysterious ways the other 50.00% of the time.) Just remember that whatever can explain absolutely everything, explains absolutely nothing. If a purple sun rises in a green sky tomorrow, the bible-thumpers will just shrug uselessly and say, &quot;eh, God did it,&quot; accompanied by all the sun-and-sky-related apocalyptic mumbo-jumbo they can dredge out of the Bible. (To be fair, it&#039;s not entirely useless: <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nightfall_%28Asimov_short_story_and_novel%29" target="_blank">to the extent that preachers decide to play it that way</a>, there&#039;s value in calming frightened, ignorant crowds.) The scientists, on the other hand, will have to put a bit more thought into the matter, and it&#039;s their conclusions I&#039;ll be paying attention to ... because they&#039;re the explanations that are going to be useful to me.
Ha! and ha, again!
I guess these guys (I presume they&#039;re guys, because Dominionists aren&#039;t exactly known for letting womminz out of the kitchen) are big, though unthinking, Van Morrison fans:
<blockquote>Enlightenment, don&#039;t know what it is</blockquote>
(plus, they yearn to be back In The Days Before Rock And Roll)
you always cheer me up.
It&#039;s because we don&#039;t actually know you. ;-)
Sounds like my daughter&#039;s complaint to me: &quot;History was easier for you -- there&#039;s twice as much of it now!&quot;
Look, the French don&#039;t call them <i>frites Belgiques</i>, do they?
You know, it took four or five times through this thread before I paid attention to your first sentence, and delivered the manifest upfist.
STOP JUDGING ME!
And, he was Bjorn again.
Was there ever a Pope Guilty?
What&#039;s all this about an heir-head?
IT&#039;S A REPUBLIC!!!!!111!!
Problem: they don&#039;t know what &quot;gratuitous&quot; means.