So I’m flipping through the channels and I land on ABC, a major network here in the states for all our non-U.S. readers. The greatest infomercial I’ve ever seen is currently on and I’m watching it as I type this. It’s all about how EVIL! Darwin was! Ann Coulter is telling me that the only reason Nazi’s existed was because Darwin came up with the theory of evolution. Multiple “experts” are explaining to me how the Columbine killers went on their rampage specifically because they wore t-shirts with the words “Natural Selection” on them. Ah, just popped up on the screen, Dr. James Kennedy is hosting this wonderful infomercial (isn’t he dead? Did God send him back to spread the good word?). Quite literally, the people on this infomercial are saying EVERY ILL IN THE WORLD can be traced to Charles Darwin, including Coultergeist, who just said something like “I went to elite colleges and not even I knew of Hitler and the planned parenthood founder had so much in common!”

Okay, let me get this straight: The world has gone to hell since 1859 and everything bad that has happened can be traced to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution: from Hitler to Dylan Klebold.

So does that mean everything bad that happened PRIOR to 1859 can be ascribed to, oh i don’t know, religion? I’m just asking because 4000 years of hell vs 150 years of hell isn’t really comparable, you know?

A word of advice next time you see people claiming evolution is the death of society, ask them why they are spending so much time preaching it when they could just do something really easy to end evolution’s popularity: disprove it. It is a theory, after all, and if you are smart enough to come along and say why it can’t be right then you’ll be the most famous person in the world. An no, Intelligent Design is not proof. You can’t combat evolution by insisting there is a supernatural element involved that can’t be proved.

What does this post have to do with horror? Other than Coultergeist being really frightening to look at and listen to, it’s just a plug for the Dead Politics Podcast which is hosted by Deejay, Jeff, and myself. Episode 16 will be posted late tonight.

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