The ultra-observant will note a new entry in the Honor Roll links over there on the right: Secular Right. It’s a very new blog started up by John Derbyshire and some others to push back against articles such as Can Atheists Be Good Citizens?
It seems to be turning into a nice resource, and a home for those of us who would answer the above question, “well, duh.” And it’s a big tent: They “embrace mysterians, agnostics and apatheists”, all of whom need, apparently, entertainment.
I occasionally agree with Roger Ebert on film, and almost never on politics. But all I can say about his spanking of Ben Stein and his dishonest little movie is right on, Roger!
Ben Stein is only getting warmed up. He takes a field trip to visit one “result” of Darwinism: Nazi concentration camps. “As a Jew,” he says, “I wanted to see for myself.” We see footage of gaunt, skeletal prisoners. Pathetic children. A mound of naked Jewish corpses. “It’s difficult to describe how it felt to walk through such a haunting place,” he says. Oh, go ahead, Ben Stein. Describe. It filled you with hatred for Charles Darwin and his followers, who represent the overwhelming majority of educated people in every nation on earth. It is not difficult for me to describe how you made me feel by exploiting the deaths of millions of Jews in support of your argument for a peripheral Christian belief. It fills me with contempt.
