How very convenient. This site has compiled for us links to a great number of statements of bizarre religious belief of the christian fundamentalist persuasion, beliefs that ought to be seen as clearly incorrect by anybody with half their brain in, say, the nineteenth century.

But being religious is not about facts it’s about faith. And it’s not about thinking, it’s about being told what to think, told by religious leaders who have the prerogative to examine scriptures, other traditions, and their own self-serving opinions in order to synthesize—by cherry-picking quotations of their choice—what you will be told to believe.

My favorite example is the middle school that was turning out students who arrived at the high school thinking that the world is 3,000 years old. Hello?!? Even the most ardent fundamentalists don’t claim that civilization and written history preceded the creation of mankind. Get your stories right, asshole.

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