Re: real life example

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:53:21 -0500, Michael Siemon wrote
(in article <mlsiemon-1EF71A.21532101112005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> In article <9bydnX5gfcxQpvXeRVn-ig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Logos" <asd@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> "The other day my 6 year old daughter came running home from school with
>> tears in her eyes. I asked her what could be so terrible. She told me
>> that
>> the teachers at her school were teaching that humans actually 'evolved'
>> from
>> monkeys. She asked me how such a horrible thing could be. She insisted
>> she
>> wasn't a monkey, nor her parents, whom she loved dearly. I gathered her
>> into my arms and held her tightly, trying to take the pain away, all the
>> while cursing the liberal rot that is so pervasive in our land. I held her
>> out to look at her, and all at once I saw something different about her.
>> She would never be the same little girl again. There was an innocence that
>> would be lost forever.
>>
>> "Now when I look at my daughter, it's like I'm looking at a stranger. I no
>> longer know who my daughter is. They took my daughter away from me. The
>> liberals took my daughter away from me."
>>
>> -- Anonymous
>
> Before you get all hot and bothered, and hyperventilating, about this,
> just WHAT is it that you (or your daughter) think is so "horrible"
> about our relationships to the rest of nature (i.e., God's Creation,
> if you are minded to think of it so)?
>
> Really -- what's the problem? You _could_ explain to her what it is
> that we _share_ with monkeys (and more particularly with the apes that
> are our closer relations). Why is such a relationship bothersome (to
> you, apparently -- I hardly dare to wonder what your daughter really
> thinks, given your apparent prejudices).
>

Many, possibly most, creationists who have this problem with the fact that
humans are African apes mostly have the problem with the 'African' part.

At least two prolific creationist trolls currently posting up a storm are
classic examples of the type. You know who I'm thinking of, I'm sure.

This particular creationist type may be more obvious to me than to some
others. I recently moved to South Florida, and I currently live about two
miles from a prominent 'Christian' academy which is notorious for its strict
literalist Biblical policies. In an area where at least 30% of the residents
are black and another 35% are Hispanic (mostly Central Americans and
Dominicans) not only are there 0.0 non-white children at that school, but
there aren't even any non-white employees, not even the cleaning or
grounds-keeping staff. (I looked.) Another prominent local literalist school
has on its website pictures of its staff and students; there is exactly one
black face on the entire site. These schools are, sadly, typical of the type.
Somehow the local Catholic and even the local Jewish schools manage to have
substantial numbers of students and staff who are non-white, and in many
cases non-Catholic or non-Jewish. (Apparently Palm Beach County has the
largest percentage of Jews in the US. There are a _lot_ of Jewish schools
here, and by no means are all the students or all the staff Jewish...)

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