"Christian fundamentalists are driving our country into the Dark Ages"
That was a really good post.
You know, the internet is an amazing thing. Through daily contact with people (from the mentally ill to the strong), we get an honest feel for the pulse of society. I grew up on a farm and knew virtually nothing of the world unless I read it in the Book of Knowledge or a book I got mail order from selling garden seeds or Christmas cards--walking a quarter or half a mile between houses. :-)
Anyhow, times have changed. All information is online. And from that one would think that all people will eventually be knowledgeable and reasonable. Yet such is not the case. Ignorance is like a brick. The rain of knowledge bombards it day after day, but to little effect.
Between the news and the boys on the street (the Gregorees and the Brums. etc.) we can get a real feel for what is wrong or right in the world. Obviously, the hope for the world lies in free thought secularism. Just as clearly, we must all prepare for the bloodshed that clashing superstitions will cause in the future. There was a time when I believed that education could destroy the idiocy of ignorant people. But the internet has shown me otherwise, It does not seem to matter how many facts you put in front of ignorant, superstitious people--they simply move the goal posts till they are playing on stadium chairs.
One thinks that the youth will change it all, and perhaps they shall. But then we see "Jesus Camps" . And we know that Islam is pulling the same crap.
Islam is now on television throughout North America. And like the Christians, their spokespeople tell a good story for needy people. And also like the Christians, most of the listeners will never read a page of actual Scripture. And so the wars will come. |
