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Saturday, July 20, 2002
Over in the comments section to this post, Clay says this:
Codrescu belittled the fundamentalist Christian doctrine of the Rapture, the belief that any day now millions of Christians will Andrei Condrescu on an NPR commentary in 1996, making fun of those who believe in The Raputure: "The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place."
Whadda jerk.
I want to make my response quite clear:
Maybe fundamentalists shouldn't be vaporized, but they should be acknowledged for what they are: people who not only base their personal cosmologies on the empirical equivalent of Hansel and Gretel, but who can then actually scrape together the obnoxiousness to look down (and hail bullets) on others who can tell what a goddamn myth is. Many of these lunatics stand on the US House floor today and propose laws based on this nonsense. "I propose that according to the belief system that believes a sea listened to a traffic guard, evolution is not true, and you shouldn't have sex with sheep (like you need to be reminded) that we pass LAW DA-DA-DA-DA so that them goddamn hussies/nigras/welfare slobs or immigrants (incorporated?) can't DA-DA-DA," etc. If we stopped treating Fundamentalist belief systems to the Law-Making Halls of our Democracies, we would end the Israeli-Enforced Apartheid (Now With Added Atrocity!), and many other Modern Inanities . . . Fundamentalism is the Enemy of Truth, and don't you forget it.