inter faith

[percival]

It's all nice and easy to be an inter faith enthusiast when you talk to moderate Christians, Buddhists, Taoists,
etc. - but whenever I encounter a specific sub group of Evangelical Christians, namely the one illustrated by the
Creation Science Fair,
I can't suppress a strong urge to retch. (I found the URL in sff_corgi's journal.)

I've nothing against fundamentalist or evangelical Christianity - but if science is twisted in line to support a world view that is often diametrically opposed to my ethics, that crosses the line.

For example, I can accept the argument that women should stay at home to look after their children because the children will benefit. But I will never accept an "argument" that takes women's lower pay to be a justification for excluding women from the work place.

As for the demonstration of the difference between Uncle Steve and a monkey, and the experiment to create life from inanimate substances - oh please. That just goes against the grain of scientific method - and demonstrates no grasp even of the popular scientific literature. (Notice how I suppressed a SNARXY comment about Uncle Steve.)

That said, I could probably live with my children adopting these views - or living with somebody that has these views. I'd just hope they'd snap out of it again ;)

Comments

[jennlee2.livejournal.com]

OMG - thanks for the link. That is abolutely incredible. I thought the Uncle Steve/monkey one seemed a bit humerous as well as sad - tried to feed him bananas but he refused. Snerk. The one that freaked me out was the second place for "Women Were Designed For Homemaking" because they are well suited to carrying laundry baskets due to a low center of gravity. Those kids seem pretty snarky: "Rocks Can't Evolve, Where Did They Come From Mr. Darwin?" Or I suppose it's their parents. I feel sorry for the kids because it's not their fault they are raised like this. I just hope that as they grow up they are exposed to other ideas and make up their own minds about stuff (and hopefully snap out of it).