Imax & Evolution
Now comes a story in today's NY Times saying some Imax theaters, mostly in the south, refuse to show a movie about undersea volcanoes because the story suggests the volcanoes are more ancient than biblical literalists believe the world to be. The theaters are afraid they will be dragged into the evolution controversy.
If the religious right manages to impose its agenda on our culture, we will become a third world country, or perhaps a pile of nuclear rubble, run by superstition and fear.
In 1964, when Barry Goldwater said, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," we all understood him to mean we should be prepared to nuke our enemies. Lyndon Johnson's campaign ran an ad admittedly aimed at emotions, showing a small child plucking the petals from a daisy, saying, "He loves me, he loves me not..." while a nuclear mushroom cloud rises in the background. The campaign came into focus around the issue of whether we were going to seek rational means of resolving our differences (then with the Soviets) or, in the name of righteousness ratchet up the confrontation to perhaps nuclear violence?
The country elected Johnson in a landslide, and I thought the issue of religious and national fanaticism had been put to bed. How wrong I was.
Religion in the hands of people seeking power is a formula for disaster.
If the religious right manages to impose its agenda on our culture, we will become a third world country, or perhaps a pile of nuclear rubble, run by superstition and fear.
In 1964, when Barry Goldwater said, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," we all understood him to mean we should be prepared to nuke our enemies. Lyndon Johnson's campaign ran an ad admittedly aimed at emotions, showing a small child plucking the petals from a daisy, saying, "He loves me, he loves me not..." while a nuclear mushroom cloud rises in the background. The campaign came into focus around the issue of whether we were going to seek rational means of resolving our differences (then with the Soviets) or, in the name of righteousness ratchet up the confrontation to perhaps nuclear violence?
The country elected Johnson in a landslide, and I thought the issue of religious and national fanaticism had been put to bed. How wrong I was.
Religion in the hands of people seeking power is a formula for disaster.
posted by Blayney at 3:16 PM
2 Comments:
Sir !!
i just put the article down, seething. what hath W/Rove wrought? all in the name of winning elections.
and, in another sad trestimonial to intolerance, an episcopal church in rochester has to shut down.
we have never been so confused !!
Sir !!
Confused is the right word for it, I think. Except for perhaps some of the cynical leadership that sees opportunity to exploit our confusion.
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