Ethics

Misology and the Religious Right

By Ed Brayton

In my post about the father blaming Richard Dawkins for his son's suicide, I argued that such tales are in some circles of the religious right to inoculate young people against learning. I came across a perfect example in an Al Franken book, in a chapter about a visit to Bob Jones University (a chapter that was, oddly, reproduced at National Review Online). He spoke of three letters on the Bob Jones University website that fit perfectly in this genre. Those letters are no longer on the website, but after some searching I found them. They're really quite funny. It's actually one letter with three stories in it, all about the dangers of secular education. It's pasted below the fold.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 25, 2008 (boomark / email).