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My New Rule For Todd Akin & The Republican Party
by ABratt
 ABratt's Commentary
Aug 26, 2012 | 331 views | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend | print | permalink

By Bill Maher, HP, Aug. 24, 2012, Re-posted by ABratt Aug. 26, 2012

Reader comment:

"In the words of Gen. George Washington in his circular to the states, shortly after victory in the American war of independence:"

 

"The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epocha when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government…"– Gen. George Washington

Reader Comment:

"A theocratic or tribalist Right that argues for public policies by invoking divine revelation to some ancient prophet or immemorial custom dating back to ‘the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition,’ is profoundly, radically un-American."

Bill Maher:

"Republicans would like to pretend like Congressman Akin's substitution of superstition for science is a lone problem but it's not: they're all magical thinkers, on nearly every issue. They don't get their answers on climate change from climatologists, they get them from the Book of Genesis. Hence Sharia Law in America is a dire threat, and global warming a hoax. ..."

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