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He said it: PZM on the tolerance of evolutionary materialist atheists

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Since it is liable otherwise to be lost in the flood of distractive tangential comments,  I here headline my markup of PZM’s recent remarks on Dr Jonathan Wells.

Pardon some fairly direct comments, but unless we specifically expose capital examples of what we are objecting to, the destructive misbehaviour will continue:

[“They said it: Judge Jones of Dover …” is here. – UD News]

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PZM: >>Atheists tend to be politically liberal, fairly tolerant. [ –> deny, deny, deny . . . ] The tolerance part is that there’s no question that nobody is going to deport creationists. Nobody is going to shut down the churches. Nobody is going to do anything like that. [ –> And, what does the bloody history of the past century at the hands of atheistical regimes tell us on this?] What we want to do is put things in a proper perspective. If you want to believe that in the privacy of your home, if you want to get together in church and talk to people about this, yes, that’s perfectly reasonable. [–> translated, we will censor the public square and the culture’s sense of what knowledge is on a priori evolutionary materialism as we have institutional power to do and if you object to the imposition of ideological censorship on origins science, we will come down on you like a ton of bricks, even threatening to hold your children hostage, on the excuse that you can have your little fantasies in quiet and that’s “freedom” enough for you; don’t you dare expose our censorship of science and science education] That’s the tolerance we’ll give them.

There are some of the people in the intelligent design movement who are incredibly nasty, awful, and misrepresent science [–> translation: they are exposing the use of misleading icons of evolution to indoctrinate the public and school children, starting with Haeckel’s frauds, cf the Google Books result here] in ways that I cannot forgive. This is not about demonizing the individuals. [–> the bland denial of what one is about to do . . .]

I have to single out this man [–> in context, plainly Jonathan Wells], whom I consider the most contemptable, despicable, cruel, and vicious evil liar in the creationist movement today, yes, he’s a nasty, nasty person. ([editorial comment, OP:] PZ has never met or talked with this ID proponent.)>>

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Remember, too, this is the same whose crowd tried to shout down Jonathan M when he showed up at a discussion in a pub in Glasgow.

That tells us even more about what we are dealing with. END

Comments
Some other creepy things are the astonishing displays of arrogance and willful ignorance (evil as described in Scott Peck's excellent book, People of the Lie) of these people. They claim to embrace reason but they reject reason. They claim to be tolerant but they are the most intolerant. They claim to be amoral yet shriek the loudest when their "scientific" sensibilities are pricked. There is no moral law and nothing is forbidden, er, ah, uh, except when their materialist dogma is challenged in the classroom or anywhere else in the public forum. Then they come unglued. Odd behavior for people who will argue vehemently in other circumstances that there are no such things as right and wrong. They are pathetic creatures who will eventually have a very unhappy ending unless they humble themselves before REASON (God - I AM WHO I AM - Law of Identity) and go where that and the evidence take them. Here's to hoping that they do.tgpeeler
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If you want to believe that in the privacy of your home, if you want to get together in church and talk to people about this, yes, that’s perfectly reasonable.
This is downright creepy. So, PZ, you are intolerant of publicly held and voiced belief (assuming that the belief is not "belief that there is nothing")? It would be much more bone-chilling if he was more than a foul-mouthed, slanderous blogger with a hoard of loyal foul-mouthed religion haters. And luckily, his worldview is completely unlivable when taken to its logical ends, which most people realize once they explore the topic.uoflcard
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