Although I was young, during my foray into evangelical Christianity as a child, I could not shake my doubt and critical thinking. “This doesn’t sound right,” I’d think often, but I mostly kept my thoughts to myself. I went along with it because my best friend, a fundamentalist Baptist, was into it. (I didn’t really feel like a fraud or hypocrite, though. I’ve always sort of kept part of myself under wraps. I would give up part of who I was to have friends or boyfriends. I’ve tried to stop doing that these days.)
This month, Roger Ebert writes a review of Ben Stein’s “Expelled.” But it’s not exactly a review, it’s more of a smackdown. Reading Ebert’s post made me remember when my friend sent me some Creationist materials from some presentation she saw. Amongst other things, it said that evolution was a lie made up by the devil and that it influenced, and was supported by, the Nazis. Huh. Interesting how we never hear about the latter from anyone but Creationists, perhaps because it’s not true. It sure does seem to be a staple of anti-evolution beliefs, though, a slippery slope from evolution to atheism to becoming Hitler (who identified as a Christian, but whatever):
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