Re: Christopher Hitchens: Equal Time
- From: TomS <TomS_member@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 25 Aug 2005 05:29:04 -0700
"On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:17:25 -0400, in article
<utkqg152p3gvk8d5os83rsc57briv66rui@xxxxxxx>, Jason Spaceman stated..."
>
>>From the article:
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>No tax-exempt status for churches that refuse to distribute
>pro-evolution propaganda!
>
>By Christopher Hitchens
>Posted Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005, at 9:21 AM PT
>
>George Orwell once wrote a brilliant short essay about what to do when
>confronted with someone who firmly believes that the earth is flat.
[...snip...]
The essay in question is one of Orwell's columns "As I Please", for
1946 December 27. It begins:
"Somewhere or other -- I think it is in the preface to Saint Joan --
Bernard Shaw remarks that we are more gullible and superstitious today
than we were in the Middle Ages, and as an example of modern credulity
he cites the widespread belief that the earth is round. The average man,
says Shaw, can advance not a single reason for thinking that the earth
is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about
it that appeals to the twentieth-century mentality."
Does anyone know where Shaw wrote this?
Orwell's essay is in a few different places on the web.
--
---Tom S. <http://talkreason.org/articles/chickegg.cfm>
"a man who is not sometimes a fool, is always one."
Archdeacon William Paley
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