For the Sake of Science

We aren’t a Christian nation, but…

4 Responses

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   NewEnglandBob, on September 26, 2011 at 7:07 am said:

   Subscribing
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   Nate, on September 26, 2011 at 10:56 am said:

   For a nation that doesn’t help the poor, we spend an awful lot of money doing so.
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   Copyleft, on September 26, 2011 at 12:54 pm said:

   I believe American evangelicals have largely gone for Option A: pretend Jesus was a supply-side Republican who wanted more corporate tax cuts.
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   NewEnglandBob, on September 26, 2011 at 1:30 pm said:

   …the influence of fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity, which explicitly and actively teaches people (1) to eschew empiricism whenever it undermines faith; (2) to fear pragmatism and prefer moral, economic, and spiritual absolutism instead; (3) to fret that open-mindedness is the path to destruction while closed-minded adherence to ancient texts and dogmas are the path to national salvation; (4) to spurn the new as heresy and denounce the ideal of a transformed future as a desire to betray a golden past; (5) to slavishly obey obsolete traditions; and (6) to celebrate and promote authoritarian domination of prisoners, the “lazy” poor, and foreigners around the globe.

   This is taken from this thoughtful post:
   http://freethoughtblogs.com/camelswithhammers/2011/09/26/american-values-vs-fundamentalist-values/