Mr.Moto:
As for Bryan’s place in the progressive movement of the time, and not with the conservatives, I thought that was just an observation. This was the man with the “Cross of Gold” speech, after all.
Then I suggest you read H. L. Mencken’s observations about WJB during the Scopes Trial . Doesn’t strike me as being 'libruh–just an early 20th Century version of SA ’s world but with far more eloquence…
I can’t let this pass without a “BRAVO”.
Mr.Moto:
Christians do not ask that the teachers in the public schools, colleges and universities become exponents of orthodox Christianity; they are not asking them to teach the Bible conception of God, to affirm the Bible’s claim to infallibility, or to proclaim the deity of Christ; but Christians have a right to protest against teaching that which weakens faith in God, undermines belief in the Bible, and reduces Christ to the stature of a man. The teacher who tells the student that miracles are impossible because contrary to evolution, is attacking the Bible; what right has he to do so?
Our schools are intended to train the minds of students, but back of the mind is the heart, out of which are the issues of life’. Religion deals with the Science 'of How to Live, which is more important than any science taught in the schools. The school teacher cannot cram enough education into the mind to offset the harm done to the student if his life is robbed of faith and his ideals are brought down to the basis of materialism. It is high time for the people who believe in religion to make their protest against the teaching of irreligion in the public schools under the guise of science and philosophy.
A resolution without penalties will be sufficient–a resolution passed by the legislature declaring it unlawful for any teacher, principal, superintendent, trustee, director, member of a school board, or any other person exercising authority in or over a public school, college or university, whether holding office by election or appointment, to teach or permit to be taught in any institution of’ learning, supported by public taxation, atheism, agnosticism, Darwinism, or any other hypothesis that links man in blood relationship to any other form of life.
As for Bryan’s place in the progressive movement of the time, and not with the conservatives, I thought that was just an observation. This was the man with the “Cross of Gold” speech, after all.
I cannot for the life of me figure out what your point was in quoting all of that. Are you contending that somewhere in there WJB suggests that evolution is specifically contradictory to creation? Because no such suggestion is in there.
WJB’s speech reminds me of Stewie’s “It’s not that I want to kill Lois… I just want her not to be alive any more.”
Well, he was sufficiently afraid of evolution that he couldn’t tolerate it being taught. One has to figure he saw a contradiction.
Bambro
October 12, 2010, 4:51pm
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