We have incredible opportunities to access information in our culture today.It’s a pity that we, as a people, tend to do so little with that information.What we do use it for is to make popular arguments, whether they are done accurately or not.And, to be fair, you can find this happening on both sides of the political arena. Let’s face it, whether you are conservative or liberal — if those are our dividing marks — it’s tough to come up with three hours worth of communication every 24 hours, that doesn’t border on inanity.And yet that is what happens daily on TV and radio.One of the challenges of this information age is that we only pay attention when there is something being said, with which we already agree.That came up this week in the continuing discussion of Anders Behring Breivik, the terrorist murderer who killed 68 people in Norway.The dust had scarcely cleared when Breivik was labeled as a “right-wing Christian fundamentalist.”See, we were urged, this is just the Christian version of the 9-11 attacks on America. It just shows how violent and intolerant organized religion is, as if they are all the same.However, now Breivik has made it clear that he is not a Christian after all.
Blame attack on the Darwinians