Monday, August 29, 2005
Fundamentalists Now Singing from a Different Hymnbook
Those on the born again evangelical right usually refer to mainstream Christians, Jews, and Muslims as followers of the Anti-Christ.
Well, they don't have to be nice, but now that they've decided to sue the University of California over its admission policy of requiring incoming students to know something of biology, they're certainly changing their tune.
''A threat to one religion is a threat to all,'' says Wendell E. Bird, a lawyer for the Association of Christian Schools International, which represents some 800 schools.
- “The Antichrist is probably a Jew alive in Israel today,” Pat Robertson once confided to his followers.
- "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing," adds Robertson. "Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."
Well, they don't have to be nice, but now that they've decided to sue the University of California over its admission policy of requiring incoming students to know something of biology, they're certainly changing their tune.
''A threat to one religion is a threat to all,'' says Wendell E. Bird, a lawyer for the Association of Christian Schools International, which represents some 800 schools.