When Religion Conflicts With Facts

A new book, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Exposing the Lies of the Anti-Gay Industry, sounds interesting. The book says that most of the claims of the religious extremists are wrong, based on "junk" science. Indeed, the book calls many of their claims "lies." Imagine that, so-called religious leaders telling lies. Isn't there a commandment against that? LOL.

I think these Christian extremists have a bigger problem than their hypocrisy. They are incapable of any rational analysis of facts that conflict with their religious understanding. Rather than modifying their view, they attempt to impose it on everyone. They would deny sex education to teens, abortions to women, evolution and the big-bang to science, and equal rights to gays.

Historically, this uncritical mindset is not new. Zealots with the same mindset held that the Earth was flat, tortured people during the Inquisition, and killed heretics during the crusades.

Let's hope that rational thought wins over religious zealotry.