[FoRK] Ben Stein's Love

[Jeff Bone]

Yeah, this really killed me.  Used to like Ben Stein.

I HAZ SAD.

jb

On May 6, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Tom Higgins wrote:
> http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWRmOTU2YzZlN2RhMzhjNzEwNzQ3MzFiZDE2NjM3NWE=
>
> "
>
> Science Equals Murder   [John Derbyshire]
>
> In an interview with the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Ben Stein  
> said the
> following amazing thing in an interview with Paul Crouch, Jr.
>
> *Stein:*   When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e.
> biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was
> thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists  
> telling
> them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get  
> gassed …
> that was horrifying beyond words, and that's where science — in my  
> opinion,
> this is just an opinion — that's where science leads you.
>
> *Crouch:*   That's right.
>
> *Stein:*   …Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very
> glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.
>
> *Crouch:*   Good word, good word.
>
> You can see the whole shameful thing here <http://tbn.org/video_portal/ 
> >.
> It's a pity Crouch didn't invite the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the  
> studio
> for a three-way conversation. It would have elevated the tone.
>
> What it brought to my mind, when I had calmed down a bit, was  
> Voltaire's
> letter to Rousseau, after the latter had sent the former a copy of  
> *The
> Social Contract* in which Rousseau argues, to put it in the smallest
> possible nutshell, that civilization is a crock. Voltaire:
>
> I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you  
> for it.
> Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all  
> stupid. One
> longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have  
> lost that
> habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of
> resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada,  
> because
> the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon  
> necessary to
> me; because war is going on in those regions; and because the  
> example of our
> actions has made the savages nearly as bad as ourselves.
>
> Meanwhile, the Blood
> Libel<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGYwMzdjOWRmNGRhOWQ4MTQyZDMxNjNhYTU1YTE5Njk= 
> >character
> of what Stein is saying is beginning to dawn on thoughtful Jews.
> The Anti-Defamation League has issued a
> statement<http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/29786_ADL_Denounces_Ben_Steins_Expelled 
> >deploring
> Stein's Darwin-inspired-the Holocaust thesis.
>
> And there are *NRO* readers who are on board with this dreck? I need a
> drink."
>
>
>
> -tom(ya know, this God fella needs a good ass kicking..too bad he is  
> not
> real)higgins
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