Anti-Intellectualism from Power Line

PZ has already commented on one piece of biological lunacy from Power Line and got nasty phone calls because of it.

I want to add one small comment to the lunacy of Power Line.

The great fault line in our society is not economic. It is cultural, and specifically, religious. What motivates liberals to launch their increasingly wild and intemperate assaults on conservatives is, in most cases, their fear and hatred of the “religious right. … .

Unfortunately for the left, religious people in this country, as in Latin America, Africa and Asia–everywhere but western Europe–aren’t going away. And to a degree that frustrates and confounds the left, they frequently aren’t stupid.

The irony of this is that Power Line was complaining about Michael Dini, a the Texas Tech professor who not only was raised a devout Roman Catholic and educated almost entirely at Roman Catholic schools, but also spent fourteen years as a Brother of the Christian Schools (a religious teaching order in the Roman Catholic Church).

Someone, who spent a good portion of his professional career as a Catholic Brother teaching in Catholic schools, is a silly and ignorant example of “the left” not liking “religious people.”