{"id":3376,"date":"2005-06-21T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/21\/religious-fanatics-at-it-again\/"},"modified":"2005-06-21T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T23:48:09","slug":"religious-fanatics-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/21\/religious-fanatics-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious fanatics at it again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThis is downright sickening:<\/a><\/p>\n

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TOPOCK, Ariz. \u2014 In the Mojave Desert, just west of the California-Arizona border, an ancient pattern of lines inscribed on the desert floor marks out the pathway to heaven for a small group of American Indians.<\/p>\n

Once covering 50 acres, the so-called Topock Maze is held sacred by the Fort Mojave tribe as a place of final atonement, the destination of a soul’s lifetime journey along the Colorado River from Spirit Mountain, 40 miles to the north in Nevada.<\/p>\n

These days, however, tribe members say that modern civilization \u2014 in the form of a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. water treatment plant \u2014 is blocking their road to the afterlife. The tribe claims that the plant, completed but not yet operating, is close enough to a surviving portion of the maze to disrupt their spiritual journeys. It is suing the utility and state regulators in an effort to have the facility torn down or moved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s revenge for the smallpox.<\/p>\n

And on another front, we see the same sort of squirreliness<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When a science museum is loath to show an IMAX film because it refers to evolution, we need to ponder the role of religion in our society.<\/p>\n

“Volcanoes of the Deep Sea” has been rejected by some IMAX theaters in the South out of fear that it might offend people with fundamental religious beliefs, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n

“If it’s not going to sell, we’re not going to take it,” said Lisa Buzzelli, director of an IMAX theater in Charleston. “Many people here believe in creationism, not evolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How do we defeat religiously-motivated terrorists when we have this sort of crap in our own backyards?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is downright sickening: TOPOCK, Ariz. \u2014 In the Mojave Desert, just west of the California-Arizona border, an ancient pattern of lines inscribed on the desert floor marks out the pathway to heaven for a small group of American Indians. Once covering 50 acres, the so-called Topock Maze is held sacred by the Fort Mojave … Continue reading “Religious fanatics at it again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ss","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}