What she said
That's not a group of people seeking understanding or enlightenment or further education or information or an interesting discussion—that's a group of aggressive over-confident truculent aggrieved fools who think they have a special pipeline to certainty and a right to challenge people who both know more than they do and eschew certainty. That's a pack of hostile theocrats out to dismantle every secular institution and branch of education in existence. Nothing will make them shut up, nothing will make them understand that their pipeline to certainty is a short rusty tube leading nowhere. Nothing will even make them perceive the irony of the fact that it is science, which actually revises its findings on the basis of evidence, that disavows certainty, while it is know-nothing zealots like them who do not, ever, revise their obstinate beliefs excuse me 'faith' who claim to 'know' that someone made the universe and who the someone is.
They piss me off.
— No wonder, Butterflies and Wheels
Had coffee with an old friend yestereve. We had a minor difference of opinion. He said he hoped when the idiot zealots come looking for our heads, they use bullets, as opposed to burning us at the stake. I said I hoped they'd just fuck off and die.In a cranky mood this week.
posted by AJM at 9:41 a.m. (Permanent Link)
