The independent yesterday had an article about faith based schools teaching creationism in schools. I have three comments on it and the subject around it. The first comment is this; could the Independent, Guardian, Channel 4 and other generally more left-wing media agencies please stop treating all evangelical movements as some infection we picked up when we slept with America on the Iraqi war? Evangelicalism has existed in this country for as long as America has and elsewhere for longer. The first settlers of America were English evangelical puritans leaving Britain to avoid persecution. Granted we've picked up a lot of cultural habits from our dear American brethren, some maybe not so great, but evangelicals aren't new to these shores and it'd be nice if you stopped treating us as so. Secondly, stop treating all evangelicals as some deep dark fundamentalist live in a cave type people. I'm not even sure what I mean by that, but that's because I think neither do you. (Today's headline: Holy Terror. What exactly does that have to do with creationism?) Fundamentalism is a scary word, and levelling it at anyone who thinks you'd be better off knowing God and wants to tell you so is neither fair nor correct.
My third comment is addressed to those Evangelicals teaching creationism in schools. Please stop.
I should probably expand on that another day.
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hmm, I don't know which way I'd go on three, but would love to hear why you'd go that way. my mind also jumps to "proclaim the truth as truth", but I have no idea of the big picture/whole story...