FUNDIES SUCK

Even the very brightest ones aren't worth much. I was reading this NYT Magazine article about Robert P. George, supposedly a Fundie intellectual giant who was primarily responsible for the Manhattan Declaration. I went to read the Declaration and I found this howler in the 2nd paragraph:

While fully acknowledging the imperfections and shortcomings of Christian institutions and communities in all ages, we claim the heritage of those Christians who defended innocent life by rescuing discarded babies from trash heaps in Roman cities and publicly denouncing the Empire’s sanctioning of infanticide.

THIS DID NOT HAPPEN, as John Boswell makes very clear in The Kindness of Strangers. BTW, I just read a comment left at the last link and it turns out that the popular Italian name "ESPOSITO" originally referred to people who were abandoned as babies.