TELL ME WHY THIS ISN’T CHILD ABUSE…
June 11th, 2007
Early in his career, comedian Steve Martin did a bit that went something like this: Want to have real fun with your children? Here’s what you do. Talk wrong to them. Make up your own words for things. Imagine the first day in kindergarten when the kid sticks his hand up and says: “Teacher, may I please go mambo in the dog patch?”
Even thinking about that story nearly 30 years later makes me smile.
This (hat tip to Andrew Sullivan), on the other hand, just pisses me off:
This Saturday, I made my much anticipated field trip to the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum, a $27 million monstrosity devoted to religious fanaticism, disguised as “science”.
Two of my heretical friends and I ventured an hour north up I-75 from Lexington, just short of Cincinnati, to discover a museum full of shocking idiocy and unintentional humor.
Early in the museum, the visitor is given advice on the proper mind frame to have for your visit: “Don”t think, just listen and believe.”
How will children raised on such lies be able to function in a civil society?
But now that I think about it, maybe that’s the point. Their pastors don’t want them to.
This really makes me feel badly for all my writer friends in Kentucky who are now unfairly tarred by simply living in the same state as these cruel and hateful people.
