Two birthdays, neither likely to be uncritically celebrated in Far South Lancaster
The first, of course, is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
(It is my personal conviction, both as a Lincoln buff and a dedicated amateur historian, that April 12, 1865, is the worst day in American history. Far, far worse than 9/11; worse, indeed than Pearl Harbor.
His death, and the bumbling, arrogant incompetence of Andrew Johnson, wrecked Reconstruction and removed the would-be elder statesman of the Republican Party to guide Grant from 1869 onward, assuming that he would have been elected to follow Lincoln.)
The second controversial birthday?
The favorite “friend” of many fundamentalists, one Charles Darwin.
Why is physical evolution so much more offensive than the idea of cultural or social evolution?
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