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Sunday, April 17, 2005

You have GOT to be kidding me.

This kind of crap is what really gets me about religious fundamentalists in this country. (I prefer the more apt term: crazies.) You want to forbid gay people from darkening the door of your house of worhsip? Fine--ignorant and un-Christian, but fine. You want to take your kids out of school and "educate" them at home because that way they won't be exposed to information that might even slightly contradict your world view and thus necessitate the development of even rudimentary analytical skills? Fine. I like my crazies dumb anyway. Building on that point--you want to interpret the Bible (history's greatest compendeum of poetry, song, history, and philosophy) as little more than the dry instruction book of an oddly (and implausibly) quotidian God to be taken literally? Well, that's fine too, I know how much nuance and reasoned argument make your crazy ears bleed.
But when you oppose a vaccination for a nasty virus that causes cancer on the grounds that one of the ways to get said virus is through sexual contact...then you have crossed the line into sociopathy on par with female circumcision and forced sterilization. Once you advocate the denial of a simple vaccine that will save millions you have effectively tapped out of civil society and entered a pseudo-medieval realm of darkness. I wonder if these people's maps have "Here There Be Dragons" inscribed on parts.

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