Kudos to the Texas Freedom Network for getting educators and scientists out in force to observe and testify at the Texas State Board of Educator's science hearing. They came to oppose teaching "intelligent design" in public schools.TFN posted a live blog through the hearings yesterday. The SBOE's response to teaching sound science was not encouraging.
What the fundamentalist Christians who have taken over the Texas SBOE don't realize is that they are driving thoughtful, intelligent young people away from faith. In Oklahoma, one of the state's most prominent atheist organizations is filled with twenty- and thirty-somethings who grew up in fundamentalist churches, mostly Southern Baptists. When they carefully examined the evidence for evolution, as opposed to creation science and "intelligent design," they tossed the Christian faith right along with the pseudo-science they associate with it.
The chief problem with fundamentalist Christianity is that it's god is too small.
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I've heard from many young people on line who have had the same experience as those you mention in the Atheist group full of youth from fundamentalist SBC churches who got upset with the strident anti-reason, anti-science, & "all questioning is evil" attitudes and tossed out their whole faith over it. A lot of them have become very bitter against religion.
It is very sad what has become of the SBC, this elevation of uneducated fundamentalist preachers to almost a position of unfallibility as if they were God, and rulership over the lay people, and wanting to take over government and discriminate against other religions...all seems so UN-Baptist to me (and my grandfather was a Baptist minister and evangelist.)
I just found your blog and want to thank you for your work, I will look forward to reading your older posts too.
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