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Attention

To adherents of the following Protestant denominations:

Pre-Lutheran Protestants
Lutherans
Reformed Churches
Presbyterians
Congregationalist Churches
Anabaptists
Methodists
Pietists and Holiness Churches
Baptists
Spiritual Baptists
Brethren
Apostolic Churches - Irvingites
Pentecostalists
Charismatics
Latter Day Saints
etc
etc
etc

PLEASE STOP INTERPRETING THE BIBLE LITERALLY. It’s really pissing me off. Rejecting science and reason is so medieval.

Why don’t you take a cue from the Catholic Church, which has long declared that the theory of evolution is compatible with the Bible? Hmm? Or are you still at odds with the ‘papists’ and adopt a contrary stance as a matter of principle?

At any rate, YOU CAN STOP IT NOW. Please stop trying to introduce creationism and other crackbrain theories to our children. Please chill out on issues like school prayer, abortion, stem cell research and focus on real threats like poverty, crime, racism, and needless war.

What has happened to you? Why are you so focused on abortion and creationism? Why do you let these issues decide which candidate you will vote for?

Of course, I’ve never understood how you can insist on a literal interpretation of the Genesis story one minute, but then the next minute you make a liberal textual interpretation of the Bible to justify your stance on abortion (the bible does not literally proscribe abortion).

But all that confusing hypocrisy aside, don’t you care about any other issues? Is abortion really such a pressing issue that you are willing to overlook a candidate’s progressive ideas on taxation, the economy, and foreign relations? WHY, for god’s sake?

I have come to the very skeptical conclusion that many bible-beaters must not care about these issues. And I’m not sure whether I should be very scared or very sad.

UPDATE: great article: Why Do We Believe Impossible Things?