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“People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: america, big-bang, big-bang-theory, church-and-state, creation, creationism, dinosaurs, education, evolution, first-amendment, freedom, freedom-of-religion, intelligent-design, letters, literacy, new-jersey, new-york-times, noah-s-ark, religion, scientific-literacy, teachers, teaching

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“The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

tags: action, apathy, auschewitz, evil, genocide, good, hitler, hollow, holocaust, indifference, rwanda, sentiment, south-sudan, sudan, talk, tolerance, west

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