re: #30 darthstar

I prefer to ignore ignorance.

A story:

My husband and I were staying at a not so posh motel in upstate PA…he was at a music convention there. I was there for the wings. Anyway, we took a dip in the pool before bed - we were the only ones there. Little did we know there was a revival going on across the street. An old timey revival, at that. It wasn’t long before we were joined in the pool by a middle aged woman, who greeted us with the accepted niceties, and then, out of the blue gave us the “Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour” bit. My husband nicely explained that he hoped that in our own way, we had.

She then asked us why we were in the area. We explained about the music festival, and stated that my husband was a music teacher. She responded wth “You know, Lucifer led the choir in heaven.” We remained kind of non-committal on the subject, and then she said “Well, at least you’re not a biology teacher…they’re all condemned to hell for teaching that evolution garbage.”

I had been teaching biology at the university level for 10 years at that point. We left. We could have gotten into an argument…but sometimes…why bother?