(06-10-2018 08:04 PM)Barney Wrote:  

(06-10-2018 01:52 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(06-10-2018 12:43 PM)Barney Wrote:  . . . the intellectual community's seeking of truth . . .

If only! As noted in another thread, on political matters academia has proven itself -- over and over and over again -- to be an embarrassingly poor discerner of truth or practicer of truth-seeking. So much so that equating academia with "the intellectual community" is an insult to intellect.

Academia's systemic, decades-long failing in this regard is a more important problem than anything any Rice ballplayer has said or done.

Is there really any such thing as "political truth"?
I really think that academia's historical bent toward liberalism has nothing to do with what I'm trying to convey here.

Your statement that unequivocally labels any and all religious fundamentalism as "anathema to the seeking of truth" is as close-minded and bigoted as the group you seemingly seek chastise.