I can't think of a movie more appropriate for this moment in time.

[flashman13]

It is a dramatization of the Scopes Trial of 1925. It is stunning how little things have changed in 100 years.

At one point Henry Drummond (Clarence Darrow for the defense) says, "Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding. And soon, your honor, with banners flying and drums beating we'll be marching backward! Backward! Through the glorious ages of that 16th century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind." America is moving backward at a a staggering pace

I recommend it to everyone.

If I needed an example of how we are going backward at break neck speed, I found when I pressed Preview that this movie is age restricted. Presumably because the topic is evolution. vs legislated religious belief. How far we have fallen.

[The Wizard]

1. The right wing has always been

snuffing the glow from the Enlightenment . Ignorance is the pole star of republicans.

[rsdsharp]

2. Good Lord! Inherit the Wind, with Spencer Tracey and Fredric March is age restricted.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Yeah, has that sciency stuff in it fighting religion...

can't have the young'uns thinking that science beats religion, now, can we?

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. And we live in an age where a clip of this movie is "Age Restricted"

Not for language, violence, or sexual content - but because of ideas.

[flashman13]

5. ...

Me: