Collision of Monkeys and Gods (I)

Under the sun nothing new

On this side, by observing Elon Reeve Musk (1971) or Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (1954), speaking nonsense and stupid stupid, may give the impression that until recently, the United States has finally moved out of the United States.

For the sake of justice, the United States is an extremely complex country with many people of different ethnic, religious and social origins.

Influenced by adult upbringing, acquired or uninhabited and self -experience, they sometimes follow the strangest beliefs on one or another political issues, but at the same time they often live side by side – in the same country, district or even apartment building.

Mostly they do not even notice each other, and if the community is homogeneous and inter -routine, then an American who is in his own world often does not think about « other » phenomena.

However, it is often the case that these two (or more) different planets face a forehead and then a terrible conflict or scandal occurs.

If not for the liberal laws of firearms, these politicized quarrels could only be laughed at, as every time the conflict or scandal happens, the national media and the entertainment business, whose representatives concentrate all their cynicism, often turn life -tragedy and dramatic grotars.

Not only isolationist, pseudopacifistic movement, which took place beyond the Atlantic attack on the Parl Harbor’s base (December 7, 1941) on the eve of the Atlantic attack in the conduct of the current US presidential administration, is not only an isolationist, but also one significant trial this year.

The avalanche of fundamental questions

Nowadays, most Americans (and Europeans) often intersect with each other about politics due to vaccination, euthanasia, « colored » immigrants, abortion or other controversial issues, but a hundred years ago, ie in the third century. In the 1990s, many of the most irritable issues were related to the evolutionary theories of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882).

Diversity: The state of Merit of Pop and the impressive nature, famous for its Tennessee, became a hundred years ago, a collision between religious fanatics rejecting the theories of evolution and their same science, radical opponents of their opponents. / Photo by Scanpix

People who follow these theories usually say that all life forms, including people, have emerged from a common ancestor (or ancestors), naturally, for many millions of years.

I.e. y. Life did not appear for some supernatural forces or beings suddenly waved a magic rod.

Although in the long run, there was an attitude that the Old and New Testament stories and the ideas of CR Darwin’s followers were very sought, more than a hundred years ago (including today), there were no shortage of people who looked at the theory of evolution as a blasphemy,

In the United States, the theoretically, the theory of the evolution of power and the persecution of the persecution, the so -called « The First AmendEMT », which is related to the freedoms of expression and faiths, has always been able to raise other fundamental issues.

For example, who will protect people whose « feelings » or faith in evolution theory « offend »? How do their freedoms and rights? What will happen to children in educational institutions? Could educators talk about evolution to the little ones whose parents’ beliefs CR Darwin’s « heresy » can be painfully overshadowed?

What will happen if a teenager returned from an educational institution to find out the parents with stupid liars and, after spitting them in the face, refuses to go to church? And what will the family and neighbors say about the family?

It took the Butler act

The collision of believers and supporters of evolution was in itself an extremely sharp and complicated topic, but as if it were not enough, the situation (as in the mid -19th century) was even more confused by the federal United States governance system.

Headlines: 1925 21 July The first page of New York Daily Mirror announces that the riot has been suspended by the Scopes Monkey Case. The photos on the page are related to other news: the missing boy (Bobby Pearl), film actress Alla Nazimova, family trial for money (Thaw), robbery and shooting in Mant Vernon. / Photo by Scanpix

The federal system means that some broad -scale, such as foreign policy issues, are accepted by common state -owned state government and other, ie more domestic issues (such as abortion), each state can deal with the taste, beliefs or practical needs of the majority of its population.

1925 March 21 Patient, blues, rhythm blues and soul performers, the state of Tennessee, which is famous for its day, passed a law prohibiting the teachers from public educational institutions telling their students about evolution (or any other Old Testament stories about human creation) theory.

The new law also provided for the punishment that was supposed to break it with a daunting « sneak », ie a financial fine of between $ 100 and $ 500.

Later, this legislation was called the Act of Butler, as one of his initiators and lobbyists was a farmer and politician John Washington Butler (1875-1952).