Bush, evolution and truth

Christian Alliance for Progress Blog: What does the Christian Right think of Cindy Sheehan?: "A mother of a slain soldier is sitting in a ditch outside the ranch of George W. Bush. Where is our moral president? Where is the president of family values? This is the persona that has been packaged and sold to Christians across this country and they bought it. Where is the Christianity of George W. Bush? It is one thing to say that Jesus Christ is your favorite philosopher during a photo op, but quite another thing to actually adhere to the philosophy of Christ on a daily basis.

Would Jesus Christ leave the mother of a murdered soldier sitting in a ditch in the summer heat of Texas, while he vacationed? I would think not. There is a stark difference between someone claiming to be Christian, and someone walking with Christ."

Believe it or not, I see a connection between this post and the debate over evolution.

As this blogger said, Bush's christianity has been packaged and sold. Americhristians have bought this in big numbers. Best seller, really. No proof beyond his lip service, but everyone says he is a great Christian man. Has he ever acted like a Christian? Irrelevant.

The connection? How we know what we know. Conservatives used to complain about us liberals. Said we had watered down the truth and said that truth and knowledge were both relative. Hard to know what to believe.

Now it is the conservatives who are doing it, but it is simply in how we know what we know. conservatives are the ones who just ignore the facts. Bush lies. Conservatives claim to be against that, but no one says anything. Bush says he is Christian. no proof. None.

Conservatives are simply selecting out truth they don't like. Evolution is out because they don't like it. Death penalty does not reduce crime, but conservatives don't care. No WMD? Who cares, we needed to attack Iraq anyway. Huge amount of the country still believes the hijackers were Iraqi. Conservatives correcting that? Nope. Abstinence only programs actually endanger kids, but who really cares? The truth is irrelevent. Facts don't matter.

And it is in that kind of setting that people can assert that faith (a truly legitimate thing) is the same thing as science. They aren't. Tehy have never claimed to be the same thing. They are asking completely different questions. But conservatives now know they don't have to listen to the facts. Global warming is inconvenient, so that is unfounded. Evolution is the same way. tons and tons of evidence is stacked against what? the creation story? And in the story, the Garden of Eden is destroyed, so conveniently destroying any evidence.

I am fine with believing in faith. I don't understand simply ignoring evidence and facts.