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Originally Posted by lagtight
I didn't know if you knew that I was YEC. I was just trying to re-direct your question to the right thread.
This is the right thread. When politicians start basing their decisions, that affect the whole world, on what their imaginary friend tells them, this becomes the right thread.
America is the only first world country where anything like a significant percentage of the population actually believe these crazy things.
Fun fact for you - lagtight - while creationism might sound like some sort of ancient construct, it's actually not. Your founding fathers knew this was all a bunch of horseshit (if you don't believe me, read some of the letters they sent to one another which have since been published). Creationism is a purely political construct, started in about the 1850s, as an offspring of puritanism. The roots of prohibition are in both.
True Christianity has nothing to do with the literal interpretation of the bible. That's all politics, and it's a construct from the last couple of hundred years.
Not to mention the "Southern Strategy" etc, of the last 40 years. Funny how religion and racism seem inextricably intertwined. It's almost... like... they both have something in common? Maybe the inexorable urge to be the bigot your parents brought you up to be. Or maybe the inexorable urge to be the lofty anointed one that your parents brought you up to be.
That is in response to all the threads where I've seen you post.