Is religious fundamentalism bringing our moral system down faster than Agnostic beliefs can rebuild it?
Hundreds of years after Copernicus showed us that the Earth is not the centre of the solar system, and after Darwin showed us that humans aren't the biggest and the baddest; religious fundamentalism is alive and well. But unlike the stored and controlled strains of Small Pox, religious fundamentalism moves unchecked but for the few skeptical minds of an all-too-easily-convinced populace. Is it spreading too fast? Do these clans of outspoken literalists have the power to radically change our world, or has the general public seen through them like a light beam through glass?
Earlier tonight, Don Shelby and the WCCO news team reported on a demonstration held at Pequot Lakes High School by the religious organization
You Can Run but You Can't Hide. The group had been scheduled to give a talk about bullying, respect, and drugs; but their personal agenda soon became clear. After singing a song about resisting drugs, they began lecturing the students on virginity, marriage, showing graphic images of abortions, even telling the students that a woman's role was to obey her husband!
According to the news report, many students and teachers began walking out during the performance. The principal, equally as shocked, gave an apology for originally inviting the group to the school. The group said it stood by its message and plans to continue preaching it.
The students, the school officials, the news report, and I would imagine the general public all have shown a distaste for the message. Is this a sign of an improving morality for our nation and world, or is the mere existence of this group a sign of a worsening society?
Does the state of our morality still risk such deterioration at the hands of the virus of religious fundamentalism? Where do we stand?
Jon
I will post a link to the news report as soon as the news website has made it available online. To check for it yourself, see
WCCO-TV | CBS Minnesota - Breaking News, NEXT Weather, and Community Journalism, Minneapolis-St. Paul. You can also check the website of the Pequot Lakes area newspaper
here. A
May 9th news report sums up what was expected of the presentation that went terribly awry.
Edited by Jon, : No reason given.
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