Y’all, anti-science hysteria and rhetoric has gotten insane. Seriously, it has gone all the way around the twist. South Korea, in the hope of one day have a group of far-right religious zealots who are as bugnuts as America’s own, have banned evidence of evolution from appearing in textbooks.
I am not fucking kidding with that shit.
This attack on evolution is being blamed on the large Christian population there, which is influenced by American evangelical Christianity. I would like to rant against this idea but can’t. Turns out people like me, who both frequently attend church AND believe in evolution, are an endangered species. Less than 1/4 of us grasp the concept that evolution is fact-based science. How depressing.
It gets worse in some places in the USA. The solid majority of GOP voters in Alabama and Mississippi, we’re talking about 60% or MORE, are so out of touch with reality that not only don’t they believe in evolution, but they also still think Obama is a Muslim. Wow. The majority of Alabama and Mississippi is either stump-dumb or badly misinformed … or both.
And the far-right anti-fact religious zealots are not just hanging out in churches any more; Muslims are actually catching the creationist bug from Evangelical Christians. Great.
On a happy note, there are denominations of Christianity that are okay with evolution. The Catholic Church has formally declared that understanding evolution doesn’t make you an atheist God-denier who hates the Bible and Jesus and makes angels cry. Sadly, the Catholic Church also regards masturbation as a “grave moral disorder”, so they can be loopy about other stuff.
Fortunately, I am an Episcopalian. Episcopalians are okay with thinking, science, and other crazy things like that. Anglicans embrace teaching evolution, welcome LGBT people both as congregants and priests, and support the ordination of women (just like they were humans!). Our main policy on sexuality is that it’s overrated: we are WASPs and we try not to have orgasms because they are messy and interfere with brunch.
But I digress.
The point is that making it illegal to teach something cannot make it untrue. You can’t make evolution disappear. You can’t make scientific evidence appear to prove a creation PARABLE. All you can do is use bullying to codify ignorance, which wins in the short term but always tanks in the end. Also, if you need to lie to make you side seem “right”, you are already fucking wrong.
Needless to say, the Syncretic Church of Non-asshats is fully aware of the scientific validity of evolution, and is socially progressive toward the equality of all non-asshats. Also, as Pope, I really could care less if you masturbate.
Seriously.
I love the brunch comment. TheELCA brance of luthernism is fairly similar to Episcopalin. Though with more beer from the German influence
Not believing in evolution is like not believing in cursive handwriting or gravity or cheese. It just IS.
Not believing in CHEESE? Now that is sacrilegious.
i agree. i love me some fontina.
typos – one day having (not have)
lie to make your side (not you side)
I totally agree with everything you said. Evolution is one of the many reasons why my daughter homeschools. The gkids would not have gotten it here.
My mom attends a church that doesn’t believe in evolution. She tries to be like them but fails. And she shuts up pretty quick when I remind her that if we didn’t know about cell division those birth control pills that kept her from having 8 kids like her mother, wouldn’t have worked.
I don’t like brocolli. Therefore I will have it banned across the world, just so I don’t have to smell it.
Well, if they can ban evolution, I can give it a go…
ooh ooh TUNA DOES NOT EXIST because I find it stinky. bwahahaha
Personally I don’t believe snakes exist. If one slithers across my path in the garden, I jump 3 feet in the air, scream “Jesus Christ!” and it disappears! How’s THAT for a super power?
I nearly spit tea on my computer. OMG, too funny.
LOL Thanks Robin, it works for me
(a fellow tea drinker)
I was raised Episcopalian. You hit THAT nail on the head. People who want both evolution and God, or evolution and something god-like, or evolution and atheism and good deeds, can try Unitarian Universalism, too.