The Right to Remain Ignorant

There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one..."

— Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

In To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee broached the subject of how otherwise intelligent, caring people let religious dogma justify prejudice toward others and insulate themselves, their behavior, and their belief system from introspection.

Frank Schaeffer is the author of CRAZY FOR GOD—How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back.

Schaeffer is the bridge which links the truth expressed through fiction in Harper Lee's novel to the political, religious, and social realities of today's world.

In a recent post to his blog, he comments:

As a former Religious Right leader, who was raised (and home-schooled by my Evangelical-leader parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer) in the movement, let me explain just why the ordinary rules of decency don't apply to the right these days.

Watch Schaeffer's discussion of the danger to America posed by the religious right's rejection of facts.