Having labored through watching the Republican National Convention and their array of right-wing, anti-education speakers, I remain dumbfounded by the evangelical commitment to ignorance as a civil right. Speakers like Bill Bennett’s acknowledgement that you probably won’t find many university professor’s lining up to support the McCain-Palin ticket because they’re all liberal elitists and Mike Huckabee who steadfastly holds to the position that every major scientific organization in the world is wrong about evolution and that he and his ultra-conservative home school cronies are right because God told them so have reinforced my long held belief that Jesus is probably shaking His head at them right now and wondering whether or not mankind will ever get it. I am a liberal, hard-core Christian who believes to my very core that Jesus died for my sins and through Him I have salvation. That said, I can’t help but believe that once we arrive in Heaven, there must be some form of remediation for my evangelical brothers and sisters who simply never understood the message of our Savior. Next to our salvation, the greatest gift provided to us by our Creator is the ability to think and to reason. Yet, the more...
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