Oh Dear

News From Tulsa:

Republican mayoral candidate Anna Falling said Tuesday that putting a Christian creationism display in the Tulsa Zoo is No. 1 in importance among city issues that include violent crime, budget woes and bumpy streets. “It’s first,” she said to calls of “hallelujah” at a rally outside the zoo. “If we can’t come to the foundation of faith in this community, those other answers will never come. We need to first of all recognize the fact that God needs to be honored in this city.” Falling, who has founded several Christian nonprofits and is a former city councilor, also said the next mayor needs to appoint people to city boards, authorities and commissions who will “honor God.” “We will also look for people who want to characterize the origins of both man and animals in a way that honors Judeo-Christian science that proves God as the creator,” she said.

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15 Responses to Oh Dear

  1. Donna B. says:

    Surely “dear” wasn’t the first word that entered your mind.

  2. Polichinello says:

    Jesus Christ, what a moron.

  3. Caledonian says:

    Jesus Christ, what a moron.

    That’s too inviting; I’m going to let that pass right on by.

    I will point out, however, that Anna Falling’s implicit conclusions follow directly from her religious beliefs, and most of those beliefs are far from controversial in a historical sense.

  4. Susan says:

    Could someone provide me with documentation for the “Judeo-Christian science that proves God as the creator”?

  5. Caledonian says:

    Sure, Susan. That documentary evidence is The Bible. Most popular science textbook in history.

  6. Susan says:

    Thanks, Caledonian. How silly of me not to have remembered.

  7. Polichinello says:

    I will point out, however, that Anna Falling’s implicit conclusions follow directly from her religious beliefs, and most of those beliefs are far from controversial in a historical sense.

    Yes, I can see what you’re saying here, so I could see her pushing the issue in classes or some other venu. But here she’s pushing for a 3×5 placard, and ranking it up there with policing concerns. Either she’s exceptionally stupid to do so, or her voters are, or both.

    In fairness, it’s worth noting that the story says the zoo has a Hindu exhibit, although I wonder if that’s more of a cultural commentary than religious.

  8. Paul S says:

    Susan,

    Sounds like you need to go visit the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Everything is nicely explained there.

  9. She should skip the creationism display and instruct the zoo to collect two of every animal in order to preserve them from the coming flood…oh wait, that’s Al Gore.

  10. cc says:

    @Steel Phoenix

    Speaking as a secular liberal, that was the best laugh I had all week. Kudos!

  11. Bradlaugh says:

    I think you’re all being mean to Ms. Falling. Let ’em have a creationist display if that’s what Tulsanians (?) want. Where’s the harm? People who are grossly offended can move to Oregon or Massachusetts. Must “the old, weird America” be completely stamped out?

  12. There’s nothing wrong with a zoo having a creationist display. The problem is in the government mandating it with taxpayer dollars. Those very same crazies are the ones raising a fuss when the beast tries to take their guns. You can’t pick and choose which parts of the constitution you feel like following, it isn’t the Bible.

  13. Caledonian says:

    Bradlaugh: An advocate for the marketplace of ideas can accept that if the marketplace doesn’t want there to be a marketplace of ideas, it can and will choose to abolish it. Societies have the right to determine their own course, just as individuals do.

    The problem is that there was once a time when the minority could flee such a rejection and set up a new marketplace elsewhere. Now, there is no place to which people can retreat. There’s no capacity for new societies. We’re stuck living in existing ones, stuck with kowtowing to the majority – and if there are social and political entities inducing societies to change in ways that we literally cannot live with, we have no options but death.

    I’d prefer to live in a free and tolerant society. But if society insists upon becoming a totalitarian state where dissidence is crushed, I want my group to be the one that does the crushing.

    Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats. – Lois McMaster Bujold

  14. Heather Mac Donald says:

    Bradlaugh:
    Let ‘em have a creationist display if that’s what Tulsanians (?) want.
    Steel Phoenix: There’s nothing wrong with a zoo having a creationist display.
    Very post-modern of you guys. But it might be worth it, if Tulsa would agree to a controlled experiment: You honor God while city Y adopts data-driven policing and introduces competition for the delivery of public services, among other urban reforms. Who has the better plan?

  15. Polichinello says:

    I think you’re all being mean to Ms. Falling. Let ‘em have a creationist display if that’s what Tulsanians (?) want.

    Sure, I can sign on to this federalism, but that doesn’t mean I can’t think of them as morons for fixating on this issue to the exclusion of other pressing problems.

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