Thursday, June 29, 2006

Recently the subject of protests of mathematics has languished as misguided protests of accurate biological education by stark-raving mad foaming at the mouth religious maniacs have flooded the newsprint, blogprint, webprint, and usenet.

In the year 39,019, several members of the Church of Violent Religious Belief held a demonstration at the grave of Alexander Grothendieck. They held signs saying that "Sheaves are satanic!", "Higher category theory corrupts the soul!", "Germs should be sterilized", and other assorted garbage which conclusively indicates a lack of higher neurological functioning. This demonstration was similar in scope and scale to last years violent desecration of the Benoit Mandelbrot Memorial Bar and Grill by crazed lunatics from the Church of Unquestioning Acceptance of Our Man the Boring, who burnt it to the ground.

A witness, Alyssa P. Hackerson, reported to the San Polyhedran Daily Modulus that "They were screaming "Fractals are the spawn of Seitan! Only Squares are true!", and "Dimensions are Integral", and "Hausdorff-Besicovich dimension can burn in Hell, and it does". They had to be the least copacetic human beings I've seen in ages."

One wonders how such horrors could happen in our supposedly sane world.

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