Done deed, for sure.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.This 2004 article is full of wild speculation and fear-mongering. There were a lot of predictions about how the evil religious right was going to take over the government. Those predictions have totally fallen apart. Meanwhile the author, Christopher Hedges has become an ordained Presbyterian minister.
It is such a ridiculous article, full of lies and propaganda that I can’t stand to read it in detail, but I did notice this:
“The Christian Right has fought successfully to have Creationist books sold in national park bookstores in the Grand Canyon, taught as a theory in public schools in states like Alabama and Arkansas.”
Upon googling I discovered that a creationist book was sold for a time at the Grand Canyon but was removed in 2014.
So far as creationism being taught in schools “in states like Alabama and Arkansas” I can report that Alabama requires by law that Darwinism be taught in all public schools.
I don’t know why anyone would take this deceptive, fear mongering Presbyterian preacher seriously.
WilliamFleming
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@MissKathleen I’m with you! As I was reading the book, I could see the progress they had made from the time it was written. Despite the fact that the Constitution says there shall be no religious test to hold office; there is in most states, though not officially. The Dominionists have pretty much taken over running the Republican Party. The only thing slowing there agenda down is the Courts, which thanks to McConnell sitting on Obama’s nominations for six years and fast tracking the most religious conservative judges they can come up with to fill all vacancies since Trump’s election, court interpretation of the Constitution will be Right and Religious leaning for decades.
We as a country are in big, big trouble! Read the American Fascist, pretty much covers everything in this article but was written long before we elected a Wacko Christian supported dictator, going all out to suck up to the fringe for their guaranteed votes.
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