BTW, I'm a little surprised that poets like you over there take such interest in our local cartoon characters.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, thank goodness.
As for being a cartoon character, the bastard should be. But he isn't.
As to why I care, in the first place I just loathe him personally. And if I fight in your "culture wars", I am on your side.
In the second place, we have creationists in the UK too, and where do you suppose they get their ideas from?
Sometimes it is very obvious --- at least in restrospect. I met a British fundie, and he told me a particularly stupid set of lies, and I never figured out why until I read about the First Amendment and the stupid ways in which your fundies try to get around it.
And then the penny dropped. My
British fundie was trying to weasel his way aroung the First Amendment. But the British
don't have a First Amendment, we have a state religion.
I talked to a guy the other day --- a JW --- who was concerned about the "banning of prayer in schools".
In Britain, prayer in schools is compulsory. But my friend had been reading ... what ....Chick tracts?
British fundie nonsense is a copy ---
a copy and paste ---of American fundie nonsense. The sources are in your great and free republic, and that's where, first and foremost, they must be fought.
ETA : Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - HAH!
