impoverished conditions, ended up doing poorly, dropping out, or failing out
of school altogether. Many of these people have no interest in learning new
ideas at this point in their lives: Quite frankly, “God did it,” is simple and
comforting and something they have grown up with all their lives.
The only life raft left to the religious world is to accept its place in the realms
of philosophy and mythology. The only way to avoid a train is to get off the
tracks; this is what religion must do in order to survive the coming wave of
rationality. Men, such as Ken Ham, are called fools by even Pat Robertson,
who has made such nutty claims as ‘Clothes bought at the Goodwill store
might be contaminated with demons.’ Ray Comfort, a biblical literalist and
creationist buddy of Ken Ham, tried to use a banana to prove God created
the universe -– the banana that was genetically modified by human-guided
speciation for flavor, texture, and shape to accommodate the human palate,
transportability, and expanded farming region. Ray Comfort’s ignorance of
this is not what made him a fool, it is that he did not take the time to find
out before he opened his mouth. It is that chosen ignorance and indulgence
in absolute nonsense that is the consequence of saying the Bible must be
literal in order for it to be valid, and the unfortunate thing is that this
nonsense is being taught to children, breeding thus a new human species of
ignorant fools parading around, buying every conspiracy theory and biblical
account of history that comes across their Facebook feed; and then
supporting any governmental candidate, who is as foolish as they.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we cannot have equality for all.
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