Battleangel

Three fresh polls reveal some startling information about the religious outlook of the American people and how faith is unhealthily mixed with secular matters and confused with proto-ideas about democracy. I think we all knew it was bad, but not quite this bad.

Today there have been three different polls from Zogby, Gallup and Harris, respectively, about Americans’ views on intelligent design and creationism. They all seem to agree on one thing.

Most Americans are total idiots.

In every poll, a majority of Americans believe that the Biblical creation story is the literal truth about how humans came into existence. And according to the Harris poll, 55% of Americans think that evolution, creationism and intelligent design should all be taught in science classes. According to the Zogby poll, a staggering 88% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 think that intelligent design should receive “equal time” in the classroom. All three polls also showed that the usual suspects are most likely to believe superstitious religious crap over science: Southerners, Republicans, those with no education beyond high school and old people.

And obviously raising the level of awareness is close to impossible given that most of these sorry individuals are shrinkwrapped in ignorance. They live and breath ignorance, at home, at school or at work. And worse still, powerful religious and political organizations rely on the grass root support and thus erect firewalls in order not to lose momentum. The people revel in their ignorance and the powers that be don’t want them to see the light. Plus there is nothing whatsoever natural about the surge in faith in America that we’ve seen in recent years. It is an engineered movement created to change the political landscape, and one that spins and is spun a little faster every day using high tech means that have never before been available. The situation thus is hopeless and we can only plan for how we intend to contain it.