Religious wrong

I’ve written several times about the Christian Supremacist war on tolerance, human rights, science, art and history and I’m afraid I will never see the end of it.  Terrorist bombings and murder have been used by the Religious extremists who see abortion as murder, but Christian Supremacy has been less aggressive in other areas up until now.  The attempts to bowdlerize history and equate mythology with science have been confined to relatively peaceful, if heated argument.

Things may be changing.  According to the Wichita Eagle, A Kansas professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design dismissed such concepts as mythology was hospitalized Monday after a roadside beating by two men in a pickup truck.  He has cancelled the course.

The “conservative” Christian group Focus on the Family has, according to the Chronicle closed all its Wells Fargo accounts because the San Francisco bank contributed to a gay rights group that promised to use the funds to "fight ... the anti-gay industry."

Focus on the Family's move follows a recent onslaught of conservative boycotts and other actions against large companies that support gay and lesbian causes, or who advertise in media that caters to gay people or who otherwise show tolerance and Christian non-judgmentalism against them, including Walgreens drugstores and Kraft Foods Inc., both of which contributed to the Gay Games or Levi-Strauss which donates only to charities that do not discriminate against gays.

To be sure, evil and hypocrisy have always been with us, but it is the affinity that Republican Party and Faith-Based greed for power have for each other that has damaged our country.  The kind of Christians we have supporting these tactics and arguments are the Christians who supported slavery, who opposed an independent and secular United States, who mocked a woman’s right to vote and stood up in righteous indignation against the extension of equality to people of color.

It’s the very people who are making the most noise about putting Christ back in Christmas by putting crèches on the village green who have completely taken him out of their religion.