Really?!
May 6th, 2008 - 8:04 am
In a recent interview on Trinity Broadcasting Network, Ben Stein had this to say:
Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed … that was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science — in my opinion, this is just an opinion — that’s where science leads you.
Crouch: That’s right.
Stein: …Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.
Crouch: Good word, good word.
Really, Ben?? Really?! Science may make it more efficient or easier to kill people, thanks to newer technologies than rocks and tree branches, but I’ve read a good bit of history. Seems to me that people had no problems killing other people long before science was anything more than alchemists trying to turn lead into gold, and sometimes they even did it all in the name of God and religion.
Ben Stein is a disgusting piece of work. I’ve never thought much of him, but lately my apathy has been turning to loathing.
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In our society, being dumb usually leads to being poor, and given the bad things that come with unintentional poverty, those affected are resentful and seek spokesmen to express their frustration and anger in some semi-socially acceptable but almost always backhanded manner. That’s all the broadcast loudmouths are really doing, whatever their supposed positions. It’s a growing industry that even affects American policy here and abroad. Keeping them dumb and poor is the national equivalent of keeping women barefoot and pregnant. It persists because it works.
In addition to keeping them poor and uneducated, keeping them scared seems to keep them in line too.