Axis of Logic is validating my world view (again) with a feature article about Fundamentalist Christianity as a “Dangerous Force.”
The Roman Empire’s unlikely demise came three centuries later. Edward Gibbon, author of “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, blames Rome’s fall in part on the ascendancy of Christianity.
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America is behind in cloning and stem cell research, now led by South Korean, Italian and British scientists. American fundamentalists seek to outlaw stem cell research on the arbitrary and totally unproven premise that “life begins at conception,” a recent concept contrary to the teaching of St. Augustine and the allegedly infallible Roman papacy for some 1,500 years.
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President Bush’s recent endorsement of teaching “Intelligent Design” perpetuates this same denial of science. ID proponents have never had an article on ID published in any peer-reviewed scientific journal. They do not conduct experiments that would prove or falsify their hypothesis. Their religious conjecture under the guise of science makes no useful predictions, nor can they model it mathematically. There are no research labs doing ID science because “Intelligent design” is not science, it is religion!
My snark runs thusly: If an omniscient entity created all; why is therepain, war, hatred, and greed? If there is a god, so equipped as to have created everything out of nothing, why does s/he show the same imperfect human faults and frailties? And, if there is such an all-knowing creator being, surely when looking down upon us, s/he must know s/he F&*#ed up!
So much for divine perfection.