janw@inmet.UUCP (09/01/85)
> one look at the so-called "Periodic Table" should convince you of that - > all those symbols and numbers *must* be Satanic! After all, it > *was* invented by a godless Commie! [ANDREW ROGERS] Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 - 1907) was not a Commie. His political views were monarchist. I don't remember if he was godless, but I doubt it. (I have no particular quarrel with the rest of the note. I am pretty godless myself, and so are my kids. But I sometimes think religion at school might do them good, for the reason that resisting outside pressure builds up character. For religious kids, it would work in reverse: atheism taught in school might do them good ...) Jan Wasilewsky