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In reply to the discussion: Religious belief interferes with people's understanding of evolution (NPR) [View all]RainDog
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the photos of the bigots, above, include people with posters calling integration "Communist" and a sign of the "anti-christ." (part of that one is hidden.)
The same claims were made by these same bigots concerning JFK - his Catholicism was also "scary." Southerners made posters calling for people to kill him and said he was a traitor, etc.
...and on and on to the current era with the exact same bullshit regarding Obama - who is a moderate - yet to these people, who have been TAUGHT TO HATE, who have been TAUGHT that things that EISENHOWER supported are the equivalent of communism and the anti-christ, etc...
we see that the irrational belief systems that promote creationism also promote bigotry, homophobia, right-wing extremism in politics - I mean, if Eisenhower was too liberal, some folks just don't understand the difference between conservative and nutcase.
The current Republican Party has been co-opted by John Birchers and religious paranoids who, frankly, have a tenuous grasp on reality. Even Barry Goldwater remarked, more than two decades ago, that he would no longer be considered right wing in the current and then-current Republican Party.
The Republicans used to be the party that was against bigotry. Now they're the party that attempts to justify it in the name of god. shameful.