Wisdom does not seek compromise with foolishness. Wisdom seeks knowledge and how to use it; compromising with the dogma-ridden is hardly wise.

How many ways do they hurt me? Well, let's see, where to start.

The chistians who murdered my maternal family for being jewish hurt me, by making my mom the way she is and by stealing my grandparents, cousins, uncles and aunts from me.

The moslems who murdered my father for being, as they thought, christian, even though he was actually a pacifist atheist, hurt me terribly by murdering my father just before my college graduation, and hurt my children and their cousins by stealing their grandfather from them.

The christians who put deity into my children's history books -but only for christianity, not islam or judaism, to boot! - as if the Bible were an historical text are hurting my children and all the kids in the class by not teaching them history, and calling their dogma history when it isn't.

Having my President say that atheists certainly can't be patriots, and he isnt' even sure they can be citizens, hurts me.

Having christians (I never get this from jews or moslems or any other religions, for that matter) look down on me for not believing their particular fairy tales and Just So stories now that I'm a grownup hurt me.

Every time I hear someone deny evolution, I and my children are hurt, by the abject ignorance displayed both by that position and by its being considered reasonable by other adults.

Having evolution denial being brought into actual science and history classes hurts everybody, especially the children, in my society.

We Must Stop Putting Up With This CRAP. Really. I just don't see how all the intelligent people in this forum can keep defending this kind of willful ignorance being imposed on children!

And you say it's WISE to just say OK, freedom of religion is more important than reality? What planet are you ON?

It's the harm, people, it's the harm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And yes, I am having a personally bad day, but still.