Fundamentalist Ignorance and Hypocrisy

Although the purpose of the religious right gathering in Brandon is to reverse the moral decline in America, ironically the religious right itself does a lot to contribute to America's decline, moral and otherwise. Christian fundamentalists are ignorant of scientific facts and are hypocritically judgmental.

Christian fundamentalists of the religious right are so literal in their interpretation of the bible that they want huge catastrophic events to happen, like the world to blow up, so that Jesus will come and bodily transport them to paradise while the rest of us burn in hell. Religious right fundamentalists believe that dinosaurs and Adam and Eve walked the earth at the same time when God made it about 6,000 years ago (...). Religious right fundamentalists don’t accept the most successful scientific theory of all time…evolution.

Religious right fundamentalists judge and condemn homosexuals, equal rights for women, and people who have had abortions. These religious people claim that the bible condemns them. However, in the bible, Lot is the angel’s hero for offering his daughters over to be gang-raped by an angry mob. Lot later impregnates his own daughters. Therefore, by their own fundamentalist logic (if you can call it that), good religious right fundamentalists should offer their daughters up to be raped and support incest. Also, if you are a real Christian fundamentalist, you will stone your rebellious children until they die because the bible tells you so. Perhaps these Christians should be less hypocritically judgmental and more like the actual Christ.

America may very well be in decline. Most Americans, as opposed to other industrialized nations, do not believe in evolution. 70% of American adults do not understand the scientific method. Americans are at a disadvantage for completing in a global economy: Since Bush’s preemptive, and some consider immoral, war, the majority of people in a majority of countries around the world view the U.S. unfavorably.

If regular people don’t speak up and say that religious right fundamentalists do not use basic rational thought, then our country will surely be lost in another dark age of superstition. These people stop at nothing to push their literal interpretation of the bible onto the rest of us. They do not even stop at the Constitution, which clearly stands upon a foundation of the separation of church and state and the separation of powers. It is time to stop being polite about religious fanatics and start teaching the scientific method. It is the only way for America to remain a viable player on the world field.