Shameless, or Clueless?
Ben Stein has now invoked the Holocaust, saying that it was science and scientists that dragged millions of jews into Nazi extermination camps in WW2.
“When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. [PZ] Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.… Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.”
“God is With Us” was the slogan emblazoned above the swastikas on the belt buckles of the Nazis that led Ben Stein’s relatives to their deaths. It was pseudo-science they used to cloak centuries of institutionalized religious hatred and their ideology of racial superiority beneath a veneer of card-board legitimacy. In opposition to reason, decency and science, the Nazi’s employed quackery, intolerance, defamation and religious fanaticism. These very tools are being used enthusiastically by Ben Stein and the Creationist movement and have produced a similar result: Dogma slathered with fable.
We’ve been pummeled by images of 9/11 for the past seven years, by the very people who’s dereliction made the attack possible in the first place, and the tactic has worked very well. In a contemptible homage Stein is now exploiting the holocaust and violating the memory of it’s victims.
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May 4, 2008 at 12:13 am
Very well said.
May 17, 2008 at 5:22 am
i allways thought that the end of the world would come by way of sex…and paper. monkeys like to fuck and that squirts out more monkeys. every million births or so, ya get a smart monkey. one invented paper so he could write down all the smart things he learned. then another one read that shit and built upon it, and bob’s your uncle,WMD’s. don’t be so proud of that logic boy; double edged swords are sharp. my votes for clueless all around. fuckin’ monkeys. how dare they think out loud? in particular the smart ones.