re: #564 grenma

This is your party - you can do and say what you like. I come here as a guest to read news posts and get some insight into current events. I just feel you are doing yourself a disservice with all the preening and schadenfreude on display here. As I said, I have personal knowledge of many of the people involved in this debate. If throwing stones at Ben Stein or Philip Johnson somehow makes you sit up a little straighter, then more’s the pity.

Of course, being nice and being right are two different things. But being neither is never good.

I know what you mean. It’s so nice to tell someone they’re paranoid and just like an antisemite. Now why would anyone take offense at that? After all, you’re just dispensing wisdom, right?

Ben Stein made a deeply dishonest film, containing numerous claims that are provably false. If you want to call it “throwing stones” to be appalled at this movie full of lies, then hand me a rock.

Philip Johnson is a born-again Christian who advocates pseudo-science in a deceptive way, claiming not to be religious when his extremist agenda is perfectly clear from every word he writes, and making no secret of the fact that he would like to see a theocracy in America and the destruction of modern science. He’s also an AIDS denialist, who pushes the false, completely unsupported fantasy that HIV is unrelated to AIDS.

Lovely bunch of people. Tip top.