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| Of course there are good and well-intended religious people, but this doesn't alter the fact that faith and belief in myths, miracles, revealed truth, and supernatural beings is anti-intellectual, antidemocratic, antiprogressive, and ultimately antihuman. Hofstadter railed against radical political activism, arguing that the evangelical movement was the crucible in which the anti-intellectual impulse was formed. To prohibit science teachers from following their example seems to me an anti-intellectual, unprofessional restriction on their academic freedom. |
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anti-intellectual - a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
anti-intellectual - smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values