What’s the point of this post? You’ve tried to made a distinction without a difference. He literally blamed school shootings on the fact of teaching evolution.
It’s an apt editorialisation, but it’s not the whole story. The difference is the full quote will sound reasonable enough to a lot of people with a religious background. For instance, I can see my grandparents nodding a long to this, as they mentally insert their own specifics in place of “evolution did it.”
It’s not so easily dismissed as just saying the crazy thing outright, without padding.
What’s the point of this post? You’ve tried to made a distinction without a difference. He literally blamed school shootings on the fact of teaching evolution.
It’s an apt editorialisation, but it’s not the whole story. The difference is the full quote will sound reasonable enough to a lot of people with a religious background. For instance, I can see my grandparents nodding a long to this, as they mentally insert their own specifics in place of “evolution did it.”
It’s not so easily dismissed as just saying the crazy thing outright, without padding.