In Other Words

Fanatics

So I spent a couple of hours researching on the internet yesterday and I came upon an interesting fact.  George Walker Bush is a fundamentalist Christian.  No, I know that that he is, but he actually /is/ a fundamentalist Christian.  It has to do with the religious group that he belongs to.  A section of the Evangelist church is considered fundamentalist Christian.  Apparently the word fundamentalism was created to describe a group of Protestant Christians in America that wanted to return to what they claimed were the ‘original teachings of the bible’ in the early twentieth century.
 
It was a counter movement to the rise of science in religion.  As people began accepting that evolution was probably true and we did evolve over the millions of years that the world has existed there was a group of Protestant Christian (in middle America, mainly) that went ‘its not true!’ and they now firmly believe that the world was created in six days less then 5000 years ago.  This religion mainly popped up in middle America among preachers that are and were not considered Christian scholars. 
 
Then I found out something else:  Bush is a member of this religion.  As are other members of his cabinet including Condoleeza Reeze and John Ashcroft (that’s the guy who’s restricting gay and women rights, in America).  Christian Fundamentalism accusing the Islamic people of Fundamentalism. 
 
I love irony, wherever it crops up, though I do have to admit this one scares me a bit.  The man of the self proclaimed most powerful country in the world believes that God is playing an elaborate prank on us with his dinosaur bones and that there really was a guy called Noah who built a boat on which he kept two of every species (never mind that the proportions listed would hardly be enough to keep just the different species of elephants, let alone the other six million species in existence today (I wonder how he kept the termites?(and what did he do to feed all six million of them?))).
 
So that is going to be mentioned in my article.  Fortunately that’s not all as Expat magazine apparently was talking more about semi crazy Christians and their crazy ways (like Paul Hill who killed the abortionist doctor John Britton because he was pro life).
 
Alright, this you have to read.  at the bottom  is the explanation for why Einstein is an idiot, according to some complete Christian moron.  Apparently he argues that if Alpha Centauri is really four light years away then that must mean it is travelling at 24 light years a day.  This, according to him, clearly disproves Einstein’s theory.  /Why/ is Alpha Centauri travelling this fast?  Well, because it has to be revolving around the earth, of course, as earth is at the centre of the universe  (what they call the Heliocentrism Model).
 
Its amazing that people are able to reject thousands of years of scientific advancement and instead want to rely upon a 2000 year old book that has been edited beyond recognition through the ages. 
 
It is so hard to stay objective as I’m writing this article.  

posted by Symbol @ 19.7.04