Sam Harris of the LA Times kind of bugs me with this article. I take into perspective the fact that he is an American journalist who writes for the LA Times, which in the US is probably considered a Communist manifesto by the Republithugs. He's watched the State and the Church get married (and still gay people can't!) for the last few years, with the Bush administration racketing up the Christian vote with Christian governors and other politicians. So, okay, I sympathize with the guy.
But still, it sounds so whiny!
"Moderate christians are ruining everything!" I didn't really see much of an explanation in there, and for the most part, I think Harris sells people short, or he is at least preaching to the choir. Heh.
The problem is that wherever one stands on this continuum, one inadvertently shelters those who are more fanatical than oneself from criticism
Apparently, all these moderate and luke-warm catholics are protecting the really crazy godbags from a "collision with scientific rationality" or at least, scorn and derision from the likes of people like me. I beg to differ. Lots of people make fun of the fundamentalists! That's all Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart do, and people eat it up. Maybe Harris has a point though. None of the really crazy godbags are reading his article or watching The Daily Show and it's just no fun if the butt of the joke doesn't know he's a butt.
I think it's a bit different in the US than it is up here. I remember when Stockwell Day said something in the press about the earth only being 6000 years old. He had a collision with derision, nevermind that scientific rationality business.
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