The Republican presidential field

 has become a showcase of evangelical anti-intellectualism. Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann deny that climate change is real and caused by humans. Mr. Perry and Mrs. Bachmann dismiss evolution as an unproven theory. The two candidates who espouse the greatest support for science, Mitt Romney and Jon M. Huntsman Jr., happen to be Mormons, a faith regarded with mistrust by many Christians. The rejection of science seems to be part of a politically monolithic red-state fundamentalism, textbook evidence of an unyielding ignorance on the part of the religious. As one fundamentalist slogan puts it, “The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it.” Evangelical Christianity is defined by the simplistic theology, cultural isolationism and stubborn anti-intellectualism that most of the Republican candidates have embraced. This anti-science' ideology may have worked a hundred years ago, and may still work with an uneducated minority, but will never carry the day as the majority of American voters can tell the difference between myth and reality.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Yo, idiot. Don't you know that MOST Americans believe the Bible?
Fam Guy said…
WRONG.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/27682/onethird-americans-believe-bible-literally-true.asp
Less than 1/3 believe in a literal bible and that percentage is continually dropping. Remove the un/undereducated (most of the South) and it is about one in five. How even that many could believe stories like the earth's rotation being stopped for a massacre to continue, and God sending bears to kill a bunch of kids for making fun of a bald man, (not to mention Noah's ark, and MANY other obvious myths), is beyond me, BUT, about one in eight actually believes FOXNews, and there is a large overlap. Sadly, there is no intelligence test required to vote.
Fam Guy said…
4 years later, that same Gallup poll puts the 'literal' belief at 30%, and dropping. Hurray for education.
Fam Guy said…
To be clear. AGAIN, I say, this is not being anti-spiritual, or anti-God. Merely anti-literal Bible, which should be obvious to anyone who uses any reasonable discernemnt to seperate myth from fact.

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