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by YankeeTarheel
"Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the French I took
Don't know much about geography
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for*"
Apologies to Sam Cooke but this is now the ideology of the evangelical "Christian" right. You know, back to the Dark Ages when only priests could read and write, and they did it in Latin so nobody but other priests could understand them.
*Ok, I can give 'em a pass on slide rules, but "calculator" doesn't fit the meter! My dad, as a tool & die maker could make his slide rule sing, but the day I showed him how a $30 calculator could do the trig functions he needed faster and more accurately, 40 years ago, he never used his slide rule again!
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."