@Cato
You seem to be painting with a broad brush as well. Pew Research says roughly 7 in 10 people in the US identify with some branch of Christianity. If Christians are indeed detrimental to our society (like I keep hearing) we should really be in deep shit.
Why should someones religious beliefs be criticized if it does not interfere with the job? How can you say that a hypothetical Christian president would have a detrimental (to our country) view of the middle east? There is nothing in Christianity that says kill Muslims save the Jews. Do you have an example of bad foreign policy decisions that came as a direct result of a Christian teaching?
The religious right would be an unmitigated disaster to public education? How are they messing up science specifically? What is the rewrite history reference? In 60 seconds I googled "What country has more scientific discoveries" and the very first article (fourth result) Forbes says that the US produced 40% of the world biomedical research in 2009 (the next country had 10%). I don't have time to thoroughly research, but it seems from a cursory glance that the 200+ years of heavy Christian influence in the US has us producing a large share of the world's accumulated scientific knowledge.
Yes, there are fringe politicians and fringe groups that have stupid ideas. Some of these people are Christians and use the Bible to back up their fringe ideas. So what? There are plenty of things to keep them in check. What one can't say is that Christians present a clear and present danger to our country.
You seem to be painting with a broad brush as well. Pew Research says roughly 7 in 10 people in the US identify with some branch of Christianity. If Christians are indeed detrimental to our society (like I keep hearing) we should really be in deep shit.
Why should someones religious beliefs be criticized if it does not interfere with the job? How can you say that a hypothetical Christian president would have a detrimental (to our country) view of the middle east? There is nothing in Christianity that says kill Muslims save the Jews. Do you have an example of bad foreign policy decisions that came as a direct result of a Christian teaching?
The religious right would be an unmitigated disaster to public education? How are they messing up science specifically? What is the rewrite history reference? In 60 seconds I googled "What country has more scientific discoveries" and the very first article (fourth result) Forbes says that the US produced 40% of the world biomedical research in 2009 (the next country had 10%). I don't have time to thoroughly research, but it seems from a cursory glance that the 200+ years of heavy Christian influence in the US has us producing a large share of the world's accumulated scientific knowledge.
Yes, there are fringe politicians and fringe groups that have stupid ideas. Some of these people are Christians and use the Bible to back up their fringe ideas. So what? There are plenty of things to keep them in check. What one can't say is that Christians present a clear and present danger to our country.
