The Republic of Macedonia has jumped the shark

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I'm sure we all know of that urban myth - spread either by a destable indolent ignorance or a detestable dishonesty - about (the disbeliever in a personal god) Einstein's confrontation with an atheistic instructor.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp

Well, looks like the Republic of Macedonia has used a falsehood to spread a religious studies program. While I don't see anything wrong with a (comparative) religious studies class - so long as it's done impartially - I find this a real cheap tactic. Macedonia is further undermining the idea of religious studies by equating it with the notions of "religion = science" and anti-atheist demagoguery.

True, with double digit unemployment, Macedonia probably has much more than fact checking to worry about. Yet still...


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S8_2tCivuc[/youtube]

I know I'm focusing on the wrong thing, but the actor playing that teacher just looks exactly the part.

Since the world is suffering an absence of Einstein, therefore that does not prove he doesn't exist. He is merely as elusive as God but he is sure to available in some dusty closet. Perhaps the same one where God is lurking in shame at the world He created.