re: #111 ggt

Most large organized religions value education highly. In the RC community, in which I was raised, it wasn’t an option. You went to school, and you learned (or at least brought home a decent report card).

I didn’t like the fear factor involved, but it worked.

Perhaps by attacking religion, there is a factor the intellectuals didn’t figure —the tie between religion and education?

Why are you determined to use ‘the intellectuals’ this way as if it’s some sort of intellectual groupthink that causes all of them to attack religion. It’s broad brush and total bunk. Yes some intellectuals attack religion and there are many that don’t. Theologians come to mind as an obvious example.

I don’t get this intellectuals (as a whole) are anti-religious stereotype either. I think it’s more of an example of political prop that’s been so ingrained that it’s taken on some sort of ‘truth’. It’s in and off it self and example of anti-intellectulism memes in action.