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

[spin1978.livejournal.com]

I've seen the site before. I'm under the impression it is a very well done parody site, with its tongue planted so firmly in its cheek it gives very little away compared to the highly entertaining but very overdone Landover Baptist website.

But yes, "creation science" is an oxymoron par excellence.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

You think? Really? I looked it over pretty thoroughly, and if it IS a parody, I've never seen a face that straight. That's an awful lot of site to build as a joke without a wink involved, and considering I went to high school with bare-walls Protestant evangelicals, this didn't sound all that different from their line.