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Subject:	Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:24:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

I found the subject quote hysterically funny. YMMV...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1548&ncid=1548&e=1&u=/afp/20050327/lf_afp/uspoliticsreligion

I think what the person meant was that we are being attacked by the intelligensia, the secular “educated” elite, and I think he is right on. There is a culture war going on in our country.

Heh, what I find hysterical is the thought of “educated” people finding this hysterical. It’s all about the blind men and the elephant.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.”

JOHN

Message has 3 Replies:

		Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture!
(...) I have to admit I'm kind of suprised at the terminology. I've heard that same sort of reference quite a bit (calling liberals/left-wingers/etc "intellectual" or "educated"), and I always expect some other sort of more derrogatory phrase to (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

		Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture!
(...) I likewise suspect that Mummert was making an attempt at irony, and the fact that he also happened to frame the issue correctly is more ironic still. The culture war, in this context, is a tiny and radical fringe that wishes to impose a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

		Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture!
(...) I would tend agree that is the context of the quote - fortunately, Mr. Mummert demonstrates in the article why he is not a member of this "intelligent, educated segment of the culture" by foolishly combining evolutionary theory and (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture!
I found the subject quote hysterically funny. YMMV... (URL) toward the bottom of that story. (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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