this goes beyond 'insulting jews'

it insults ANYONE with a brain

(the earth doesn't rotate....how the HELL can anyone think that)

i have no idea if rep bridges approved or knew of this memo prior to it's distribution. i don't care. what i DO care about is ANYONE even considering any of this shite to be anywhere NEAR legitimate (and unfortunately there ARE people who DO believe this crap)

Anti-evolution memo stirs controversy

By Jeremy Redmon Thursday, February 15, 2007, 01:37 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Anti-Defamation League is calling on state Rep. Ben Bridges to apologize for a memo distributed under his name that says the teaching of evolution should be banned in public schools because it is a religious deception stemming from an ancient Jewish sect.
Bridges (R-Cleveland) denies having anything to do with the memo. But one of his constituents said he wrote the memo with Bridges’ approval before it was recently distributed to lawmakers in several states, including Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio.........

.....“This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic ‘holy book’ Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.”..........

..............It also directs readers to a Web site www.fixedearth.com, which includes model legislation that calls the Kabbala “a mystic, anti-Christ ‘holy book’ of the Pharisee Sect of Judaism.” The Web site also declares “the earth is not rotating … nor is it going around the sun.”..................

and

Copernicus Was Wrong ? : The Flat Earth Temptation

Posted by Bruce Wilson

Influential Christian right leaders say the Sun revolves around the Earth

Geocentrists accept a spherical earth but deny that the sun is the center of the solar system or that the earth moves.... The basis for their belief is a literal reading of the Bible. [ source ]
An emergent scandal over a Texas Republican Party politician's distribution of a memo citing a "fixed Earth" website alleging the Earth to be non-rotating and at the center of the universe has raised the question; where do such eccentric views as Rep. Chisum's, that the Copernican model of the Solar System is wrong and derives from a Jewish Kabbalistic Conspiracy, come from ? Until recently, it's been generally assumed that the debate over heliocentric vs. geocentric models of the universe, that raged up until the advent of Copernicus, had been well resolved...........

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