[quote=CardiffBaseball]C’mon Brian there are such a small number of people who match up to your stereotype of knuckle-dragging mouthbreaters, who breed and keep their kids ignorant. Every church I’ve ever been in including here in SD was full of very successful, well-educated professionals.[/quote]

Cardiff: Its bigotry, pure and simple. The church I grew up in (Los Altos, CA) numbered amongst its members one of the founders of Intel, numerous Stanford faculty, aerospace and computer hardware engineers, senior management at HP, IBM and Ford Aerospace (where my dad worked), etc, etc, etc.

The grade school I attended was attached to that church and was a seminary school and consistently ranked among the top 10 schools in the state. My high school was a feeder to Stanford, Cal (Berkeley) and the Ivies. For those paying attention: Catholic, Christian and parochial schools are noted for their college prep programs and academic excellence (we graduated 98% and boasted a 92% acceptance rate to colleges and universities).

Its easier, however, to be a bigot and demonize and scapegoat those who don’t believe in your brand of “religion” (Leftism), forgetting, of course, that many of the greatest thinkers, scientists and philosophers were and are Christians.