Originally Posted by Red Baron:
What is this harm of which you speak? Do innocent parishioners suddenly start bleeding from their ears? Are they blinded? Mass hysteria? Dogs and cats living together? What?
My dear Deep. The fact that many of your friends and neighbors choose to attend a house of worship and listen to Gospel preached does you or no one else harm. The US faces a myriad of threats as it always has and always will. With God's help we will endure. Be of good cheer!
By the way I have been going to Church most of my life and I have never heard about the dinosaurs walking with man. I gotta find one where that's taught and go hear what I'm missing out on.
My dear Red,
When the likes of Ken Ham or Kent Hovind tell innocent, well-meaning (yet innocent) Christians that they must either believe that dinosaurs walked with humans or risk Hell, on which side do you fall? Do you simply say "that's their belief" or do you declare BS?
It matters. Much of America is being led, by cruel and dishonest claims on its faith, to discount every scientific and reasonable premise about natural history. We can't afford this. Not only that, but it drives a wedge between imbeciles who vote and normally intelligent people.
Most studies show that about half the people don't believe in evolution. This correlates with a normal bell curve of intelligence, if you know what I mean.
I'm glad that your church is not afflicted with the ravages of duplicitous fundamentalism. My congratulations. Some are not so lucky.
DF