Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon

One of the reasons I left the south so many years ago was this kind of mentality. 30 years later, things haven't changed.

These people are doing as much damage as radical Islam, because they are preparing an "us vs them" mindset in their followers.


http://www.alternet.org/story/96945/theocratic_sect_prays_for_real_armageddon/



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Wooooooow. I better invest in some fire arms.

 

I live in the south, and grew up around fundamentalist baptists and pentecostals. The evangelical movement is a real and serious threat to democracy and equality as we know it in this country. Children are indoctrinated with scriptures even before they can read on their own, much less form logical thoughts, and are taught to accept scriptures without criticism and skepticism on pain of eternal damnation and torture, thus no amount of facts or rational argument can convince them otherwise. Fear is the tool of social control used to fill children's heads with irrational ideas that they dare not criticize. This is how religious fundamentalism takes hold. It is like a virus that feeds off the ignorant and the young. Thankfully not everyone in the south is like that, however a majority of voters down here are evangelicals and thus part of the problem.