re: #256 Sharmuta

What I find interesting about this debate is that the very mechanism by which we’re free to have this conversation is the very mechanism the ID proponents would like to undermine- the Constitution. The Enlightenment is what made our system of government possible, and it’s the Enlightenment the IDers would like to reverse.

It makes me wonder if they really value their freedoms if they could push an agenda that would so undermine their ability to hold those beliefs.

Well, I’d say they value their freedoms, a lot. It’s other people’s freedoms they’re not so concerned about.

I’m reminded of all the people I know who preached in recent years about the necessity for a “strong unitary executive” and why the president required ever-greater powers in our perilous times…never thinking that someday they might have a president whose beliefs were different than theirs.

Grrr. Don’t get me started… :)