Congressman draws fire for calling evolution, Big Bang ‘lies from the pit of hell’
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/10/congressman-draws-fire-for-calling-evolution-big-bang-lies-from-the-pit-of-hell/?hpt=hp_t3
Broun, a medical doctor by training, serves on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
This is what he says, at least when he is standing in his church:
“All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell,” U.S Rep. Paul Broun said in an address last month at a banquet organized by Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Georgia. “And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.”
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“I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old,” Broun said in the speech, which Liberty Baptist Church posted on its website via YouTube. “I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.”
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In his speech to the church group, Broun called the Bible the “the manufacturer’s handbook. … It teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in our society.”“That’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that,” he said.
So, here in America we have the most ignorant people in the most pivotal positions in government. This guy sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology (yes, I know I am repeating myself, I just got to emphasize this since it blows my mind). Of course, as I reported here before, Americans as a group do _NOT_ believe in science or evolution, so I guess we are in fact getting a representative government.
I really got to get off my duff and check the immigration policies of other countries. Perhaps Australia isn’t so damn stupid.
