thought

it occurred to me while reading of the lying christian right's attempts to smear Darwin with Hitler's legacy that this activity is exactly the same as what has going on in the first decades of the 19th century: preachers, ideologues and believers attempting to obfuscate actual history and smear their opponents with the worst, most hideous offenses of their time. in the 1700-1800's they'd use the Jacobin terrors of the French Revolution to tar people they despised, and now they use Hitler. I know there's a whole science about when the H word comes up, but the exact correlation is pretty stunning.
i guess the god-guzzlers have a formula, and they stick with it.