Robert Knight: Running against evolution could potentially be a winner for the GOP
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Mon Jan 06, 2014 at 06:05:56 PM EST

In one of the starkest instances yet of how far gone the religious right is, one of its leading activists thinks that he's found another potential wedge issue that could drive more people into the waiting arms of the GOP.  Robert Knight, a frequent columnist at Town Hall and the Washington Times, tells OneNewsNow that the GOP could reap a major windfall if it runs on--wait for it--opposition to evolution!  He was heartened by that Pew Research poll that shows only 43 percent of Republicans believe in evolution, and thinks this could potentially be a winner both in 2014 and in the long run.

"Evolution is at the core of a left-wing, secular, humanist worldview that has been breathing down everybody's necks in America for years [and telling us that] the best we can do is empower government to make our decisions for us," he offers. "That leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country."

The political commentator is encouraged that more Republicans reject the concept – and believes it could bode well for the GOP at election time later this year.

"The Republicans have a great opportunity to say Look, we've witnessed the collapse of a lot of lies that liberals have told over the years, and now we're questioning evolution more than ever as a basis for people's worldviews," Knight suggests. "So the dynamics are fascinating – and I think they could add up to an enormous conservative revival in this country."

So let's get this straight.  Knight thinks that if the GOP declares itself the party of scientific ignorance, it will not only win in 2014 and beyond, but win big.  Apparently Knight's forgotten that the reason any competent Democrat starts out with at least 245 electoral votes is that moderate suburbanites in the Northeast, Midwest and West turned on the GOP when it started running hard right on social issues.  This demographic swung hard to Clinton in 1992, and have been solidly in the Democratic column ever since.  Knight also seems to forget that a significant bloc of younger evangelicals aren't as hung up on social issues as people of Knight's generation.  So he wants to take the GOP into fantasyland?  Please proceed.



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--------------------------------------------------------- Evolution is at the core of a left-wing, secular, humanist worldview that has been breathing down everybody's necks in America for years [and telling us that] the best we can do is empower government to make our decisions for us," he offers. "That leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country. ---------------------------------------------------------- Atheism seem to be the only thing you left out. How does one go about debunking absolute BS? That is all this is. Pure, unadulterated BS. You've named all the things Evolution is not. Now, let's talk about what it is: It is a scientific theory about how live evolved on this planet. That is all. It was never political until the evangelical robots made it that way. Everything you claimed here fits the right-wingnut worldview perfectly, right down to mentioning the NAZIs. It still amazes me how many people claim to be ignorant of the NAZI / catholic connection. Every NAZI was a catholic. Hitler's orders. Despite the unspeakable atrocities committed by them not a single one, NOT ONE NAZI has ever been excommunicated from the church. The NAZIs and the catholics had an agreement --- the catholics had total control over children's education until high school in exchange for the catholics total, unreserved support of the NAZIs. I believe the one absolute tenet of cons is the most ridiculous thing I've heard for a long while. They all see Russia as their enemies. Have these people not ever taken the time to investigate Russia? It is, without a doubt, a conservative utopia. It is the land where cons would have every single thing they want here -- hate, intolerance, forced religion, tax burden placed on the poor, etc... Everything cons could ever wish for is already there. I don't get why they waste so much time and money trying to turn our democratic republic into a land of tyranny, terror, and hatred. All they need to do is move to Russia. Instant utopia!

by Bodine666 on Thu Feb 27, 2014 at 08:53:07 PM EST
Sorry, but -

  • Evolution generated political controversy since Darwin published Origin of Species in 1859.
  • Many Lutherans and other Protestants joined the Nazi Party during its heyday - the SS was mostly Protestant.
  • Even while holding power, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, was excommunicated by the Catholic Church (for marrying a Protestant).

And that's just off the top of my head: no doubt a longer review could find even more errors in your unbalanced little screed.

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