THE STUPID ARRIVES IN MY SMALL TOWN

3. May 2009 by Frank.

An absolutely beautiful morning inspired me to take a wonderful 2 mile walk at about 8:20 AM.  I decided to drive to the little village just 3 miles down the road so I could walk around there and look at the quaint little buildings.  It’s a new goal I have, to walk around places I don’t normally walk around.  It was a great decision because weather this sweet doesn’t happen all the time; 55 and sunny.

I passed by an old school building that had been converted into a Baptist church.  Apparently they aren’t of the more modern multiple service times like the Lutheran church a half mile down the street.  That was a good thing because that meant there was no one around to hear me exclaim, “Holy Shit!” as I saw their friendly neighborhood announcement sign.

“The earth is the Lord’s.  Psalm 24:1,” read the sign.  OK, no big deal.  Standard bible quotation, common enough.  The problem and/or the shocker was the sentence underneath the verse.  The stark raving stupid is here.  Right here in my little village.  In what was once a place of education.

Brace yourself.  “Only God Can Control the Climate!” proclaims the sign.  Augh!

I frequently read articles by atheists pointing out creationist bullshit and fundamentalist denials of science.  My usual reaction is of the oh come on, they aren’t all that bad variety.  I tend to think such viewpoints are restricted to relatively small groups of whackaloons but then I see something like this and I realize that I’m wrong.  This kind of crap is everywhere.

I’m not much of a crusader for global warming but I have been through Gary, Indiana and lived in Los Angeles, California so I’ve seen up close and personal just what human created pollution can do to the atmosphere and the entire ecosystem.  I find it unbelievable that anyone in this day and age can seriously believe that human activity isn’t affecting the climate of the planet.

But at least this idiot pastor in this little village believes that only his god can have that effect.  And he’s preaching it to his sheeple as the word of god.  At least some of them will believe it, too, when he gets done.

That it’s happening in what used to be a schoolhouse just makes it that much more shameful.

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