Most Of The Religious Right Are Not Stupid, Just Willfully Ignorant

The proliferation and public acceptance of willful ignorance is evident when we realize there are millions of history revisionists and creationists among us, many of who hold graduate and post-graduate degrees and occupy high-ranking positions in academia and the political arena
. . . Ultimately, it is the mind that defines our species. The ability to discern fact from fiction is what advances our society. Religious indoctrination of our educators, legislators and political leaders only serve to dilute our collective evolution as a species, stymie our collective intellectual growth and come at a great cost to our mental and physical of existence, especially in the realm of education and politics.
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Richard Dawkins, “Children are indoctrinated. I want to open their minds”

Dawkins continues to argue not just against faith but — as an evolutionary biologist — for inheritance, in terms of the chemical genes we are born with and the cultural “memes” that may be transmitted from generation to generation . . . “I’m very aware that people try to get their hands on children and indoctrinate them and I want to open their eyes, open their minds, show them the thrill of science — of really understanding so much of why we exist, why the universe exists, what life is .” . . . It was from his father, Dawkins says, that he learnt a “scientific attitude”. I ask him to define that. He replies: “Ceaseless questioning, scepticism, wanting to know what the evidence is, understanding what evidence means.” Read more . . . 

God And Galileo: Why People Who Believe The Universe Should Revolve Around Their Religion Are Dangerous

There really is a movement of religious zealots who are convinced Galileo was wrong. They are called “geocentrists.” How do these geocentrists know that the Earth is the center of the universe? The Bible tells them so!
. . . Yeah, we scoff at geocentrists today, but as Sungenis points out, they had their day. It lasted something like 1,500 years. Church and state were one, and if you didn’t like it, well, they had a torture rack and possibly a pyre just for you. Read more . . . 

Christopher Hitchens, “Rick Perry’s God: Does the Texas governor believe his idiotic religious rhetoric, or is he just pandering for votes?”

. . . religion in politics is more like an insurance policy than a true act of faith. Professing allegiance to it seldom does you any harm, at least in Republican primary season, and can do you some good. It’s a question of prudence . . .  Perry can be reasonably sure that the voting base of the theocratic right has picked up his intended message . . . The risks of hypocrisy seem forever invisible to the politicized Christians, for whom sufficient proof of faith consists of loud and unambiguous declarations. Read more . . . 

There is no controversy; creationism doesn’t belong in our public schools.

The sole purpose of creationism is to defend the biblical book of Genesis. It exists only for religious purposes and it abandons anything that even remotely approaching scientific research. Creationism is an insult to the collective of human intelligence.  Living a life according to myths and fairy tales is nothing short of childish and those who would cause detriment to the proper education of our children amount to little more than the “blind leading the blind” and they should have no place in deciding who is taught anything. Read more . . .