Science marched forth, demolishing fundamentalist "facts" with dispassionate argument.
So science also became our enemy. Rather than rethink our beliefs,
conservative religionists like me (and "Billy") decided to renounce
secular higher education and denounce it as "elitist." Thus, to be
uninformed, even willfully and proudly so, came to be considered a Godly
virtue. And since misery loves company, the evangelicals' quest, for
instance when evangelicals dominated the Texas textbook committees, was
to strive to "balance" the teaching of evolution with creationism and
damn the facts.
-- Frank Schaeffer, "Send the Bill for the Shutdown to the Religious Right"
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