the lies of the Catholic Church about the efficacy of condoms and the idiocy of preaching creationism in the face of all scientific evidence,
Putting on my copyeditor's hat: It isn't clear whether the pairing is "lies" and "idiocy" or "efficacy" and "idiocy." I think it's the former (that is, you are not identifying this particular idiocy as one of the lies of the Catholic Church), because usually you don't use the serial comma (for example, "it also produces great art, good science and feminism"). However, you do use it at least once ("the idiocy of preaching Islamic creationism, ... the extent to which the Iraqi insurgency has become an occasion of the murder of Shia by Sunni, and vice versa"), so I'm not certain.
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Date: 2006-02-12 04:40 pm (UTC)Putting on my copyeditor's hat: It isn't clear whether the pairing is "lies" and "idiocy" or "efficacy" and "idiocy." I think it's the former (that is, you are not identifying this particular idiocy as one of the lies of the Catholic Church), because usually you don't use the serial comma (for example, "it also produces great art, good science and feminism"). However, you do use it at least once ("the idiocy of preaching Islamic creationism, ... the extent to which the Iraqi insurgency has become an occasion of the murder of Shia by Sunni, and vice versa"), so I'm not certain.