![]() The revenge of the godless nerds is well underway at your local Barnes & Noble. Hunter, resigned after the group resisted his efforts to broaden the group’s agenda to include issues such as poverty and global warming.Īs for the Rev. Late last month, the president-elect of the Christian Coalition of America, the Rev. Even some of the faithful have grown restive with God’s apparent fixation on below-the-belt morality. In the space of two short years and one rather drawn-out midterm election, conservative Christian hegemony has been rolled back, Intelligent Design has been slapped down in court (the Dover case), and the evangelical movement itself is wobbling, unseated by its overreach on issues such as stem cell research, vaccines that prevent cervical cancer, abstinence-based education, the War on Christmas, tombstone-like monuments to the Ten Commandments in courthouses. This is an especially exciting time to be a heathen. Holy Rudolph, the star of Wal-Mart, the iPod in the manger-yes! Never are the divine mysteries of Advent more mysterious than when they come in a large bag carried by a fat man who is, let’s face it, an elf-slaver. For atheists, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year.
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