Friday, December 03, 2004

History: Quack, Quack

Antonin Scalia, not exactly a student of history. At a speech at a Synagogue in New York just before Thanksgiving:

Scalia, 68, addressed the topic of government and its relationship to religion.

In the synagogue that is home to America's oldest Jewish congregation, he noted that in Europe, religion-neutral leaders almost never publicly use the word "God."

But, the justice asked, "Did it turn out that, by reason of the separation of church and state, the Jews were safer in Europe than they were in the United States of America? I don't think so."



Holy fuck!

How many paragraphs could be written to show just how idiotic that statement is when compared to actual history.

Jesus-on-a-swizzlestick, how is this man considered the "shining" light of the right?

Nevermind, that question itself is ridiculous.

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