Cursed is the ground. . .

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. — Mao Zedong, Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan --

Mao also said that political power comes from the muzzle of a gun, but the lie is mightier still than the gun or the sword. A revolution can be a lie, an election to a school board, the breaking of a law - or so Dr. D. James Kennedy and Ann Coulter and their legion of liars have set out to prove.

The process that is likely to destroy democracy and liberty and end the centuries of progress toward a more just and free society is accelerating. That process is called Christian Broadcasting and Christian publishing and the insurgency of the Religious Right. Of all the great and destructive “isms” of the last few hundred years, Militant Fundamentalism may be the most deadly; attacking the foundations of the society and the very type of society that once did so much to end the tyrannical and destructive doctrines of Fascism and Communism.

The Coral Ridge Hour, one of those pseudo-Christian purveyors of lies, fallacies and twisted logic, is launching a television series designed to replace truth with The Word. The Word of Dr. D. James Kennedy, that is.

Dr. D. James Kennedy hopes to convince as many people as possible that the demonstrable truth is not truth at all by using the time honored practice of denying it in a loud, firm and relentless voice. He hopes that by enlisting the ravings of the lunatic fringe of science he can marginalize centuries of rigorous study and hard evidence. He also hopes that the raucous shrieks of the white boned demon, Ann Coulter will persuade the multitudes that the nearly inexhaustible well of evidence for evolution is not there while the total absence of any evidence for divine creation is irrelevant.

Without the corrupting effects of the fundamentalist delusion, anyone smart enough to tie his shoes will recognize the absurd reduction of post hoc, ergo propter hoc and not require an illustration of how the Theory of Gravity, Newton’s laws of motion and the laws of thermodynamics enable all wars. In fact firm religious “truth” such as the Coral Ridge insurgents seek to substitute for sanity and justice and liberty is the direct root of a preponderance of wars and the support of nearly all of them, but you can’t fight people like Ann and D. James with logic or with facts, no matter how rigorously presented. They simply state over and again that the case for Evolution is presented without rigor, deny the need for evidence to support their own case and shout vicious denunciations to drown out reason.

Ann Coulter, who makes her dirty living by equating honesty with Godlessness, makes a case for Deus Absconditus by continuing her existence. Were there a God who involved itself in enforcing justice as the Books of Genesis tell us, then she would vaporize and truly would the entire Earth be condemned because of her, but we are on our own and if we don’t recognize that we are occupied by an insurgency that means to overthrow us we will be overthrown. There is no time for a dinner party, or the taking of tea.