December 03, 2004

Fifth column

I wouldn't begrudge college students internships in government, but if you look at this list and then understand that all those kids are from Patrick Henry College, you might be a little concerned. The College, see, states its mission in part as:

to prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding. Educating students according to a classical liberal arts curriculum, and training them with apprenticeship methodology, the College provides academically excellent baccalaureate level higher education with a biblical world view.

I'm not sure I want people with a biblical world view running my government, thank you. I can see it now: in 2025 one of them will be the Secretary of the Interior and decide that breaching Hoover Dam to recreate The Great Flood would be a great idea.

All things considered, I think I prefer the Monica Lewinsky variety of intern, if it's all the same to y'all.

Posted by Linkmeister at December 3, 2004 12:01 AM
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Well, there's plenty more where they came from...

From a recent Newsweek poll.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6650997/site/newsweek/?GT1=5936

Seventy-nine percent of Americans believe that, as the Bible says, Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, without a human father.

Sixty-seven percent say they believe that the entire story of Christmas—the Virgin Birth, the angelic proclamation to the shepherds, the Star of Bethlehem and the Wise Men from the East - is historically accurate.

Sixty-two percent say they favor teaching creation science in addition to evolution in public schools; 26 percent oppose such teaching, the poll shows. Forty-three percent favor teaching creation science instead of evolution in public schools; 40 percent oppose the idea.

No doubt, these people believe that the world is flat, too.

Posted by: coop at December 6, 2004 03:19 PM

I refuse to be discouraged.

Posted by: Linkmeister at December 6, 2004 03:36 PM