RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM IN THE US IS DEAD
Read what the New York Times had to say today.
I saw this meltdown coming at least 5 years ago.
After, all how much hypocrisy can people even with a modicum of intelligence take?
The pedophile priests, the promiscuous nuns, the parade of cheating and lying evangelical leaders caught with their hands in the $ till or in sexual misadventures.
The blatant denial of well and long established scientific principles such as biological evolution.
The hypocrisy of being "pro-life" only up to the birth of the baby.
The increasingly outrageous statements made by the "leaders" such as Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell.
The poison of religious fundamentalism is dead in the US
Let us hope and pray that the rest of the world follows our lead.
Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton, Pa
http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com
You speak of denial of scientific principles, but offer proof by selected instances. The average American reads 1 book per year, too. Does that mean that literature in the U.S. is also dead? Your words fairly yelp dogmatically, as do fundamentalists'.
You "hope and pray" the rest of the world follows "our lead" while citing only failed religious leadership. The earth is flat, too, just look at the horizon.
Aint dead, aint even close to dead; zealotry serves mammon. It blinds the people.
It blinds them, it binds them, and it grinds them. Follow the money. Hold the executives to account. Then call me in the morning, doctor.
October 28, 2007 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, Doc, but you're quite full of it. The pray-for-pay preachers are flourishing. Pat Robertson can call for assassinations, make a complete ass of himself about gay Teletubbies, and blame the ACLU for 9/11 and still retain his "flock." Many of the same 24-to 39% of the people who still support Bush are keeping it alive and well.
Democracy as we knew it may be dead, but religious fundamentalism is alive and well.
October 28, 2007 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Never, ever publish the obituary while the patient still has a pulse. (Mortuary Science - 101)
However, the article did offer hope that the severely wounded wall between church and state may be in the recovery phase.
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. Molly Ivins
October 28, 2007 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rick, don't be so sure. Have you read Chris Hedges book about American Fascism and the Christian Right? Those dominionists are real scary and quite powerful.PS Good letter in Sunday's (10/28) Philadelphia Inquirer bashing my former 7th grade history student Brian Tierney for hiring Santorum to do a column. I beat you by two days. I had a letter about Iraq in Friday's (10/26) Inquirer.
October 30, 2007 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
great tlees2
since we are neigbors and on the Cafe Blog write to me at ralippin@aol.com
Rick
October 31, 2007 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink