American Fascists The Christian Right & The War on America by Chris Hedges

Author:Chris Hedges [Hedges, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-06-08T22:36:04+00:00

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AMERICAN FASCISTS

return to a deathless paradise. But if the Darwinian account of evolution is

then

and suffering were always and al-

ways will be a part of human existence. Evolution implicitly challenges the possibility of miracles. the Second Coming of Christ, the Resurrection, and an apocalyptic end to human existence in which the saved are lifted up into heaven. For believers who have found in the certitude of Christian fundamentalism a shelter from despair, a despair that

to consume them again if they re-

turn to a reality-based world. evolution is terrifying. The miracles they insist they see performed around them, the presence of the guiding, comforting hand of God in their lives, the notion that there is a divine destiny specially preordained for them, crumbles into dust under the cold glare of evolution. Evolution posits what they fear most: a morally neutral universe. It obliterates the fantastic constructs of their belief system. And the steady efforts by creationists to erode the authority of evolution and discredit Darwin are, because of all this, unrelenting and fierce.

"Unlike the animals, mammals included, man is an immortal being who will live somewhere

reads a passage in

Living Creation, a creationist textbook popular in Christian high schools. Human beings are discussed in isolation from other mammals, and brief passages interrupt the chapters with headings such as "The Wonders of the Human Hand." "Only an omnipotent and all-wise God could have designed and created the human hand,'" students read. Computers can never think, students are told, because "No machine will ever know satisfaction at discovering God's truth.

The textbook, with an

of

ture references, states that "according to the laws of probability, the probability that evolution occurred is essentially zero. Yet, evolutionists believe sincerely that it did somehow happen. We marvel at their faith in the impossible.'"

Creationist publications such as this one blame Darwin for spawning most of the evils of modernity including racism,8

Stalinism,'Q the Holocaustll and the Rwandan gena-

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