By their fruits shall ye know them. (re: Fundamentalists and the environment)

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A source of puzzlement to me: Evangelicals/Creationists mostly find their home in the Republican Party, along with big business.

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I never understood this alliance, even when I was a fundamentalist. Although I was pretty conservative in those days (although losing my conservative ideals pretty fast) and was a staunch believer in "free market economics", it was pretty clear to me even then that the "capitalist economics" preached by the Reagan Republicans were a very self-centered, egoistical type of economics, a society of selfish hedonistic "individualism" that I found unpalatable as a Christian.You can't serve both God and Mammon, and I was very opposed, even as a conservative Christian, to the support of greed-based capitalism that the Religious Right was supporting in those days (and continues to support, despite their commitment to so-called "values").

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"Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism -- biblical literalism -- is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true." -- Katha Pollitt

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For the benefit of those members who don't follow Canadian news....

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And seeing how GDR is speaking of Canadian politics, let me assure our readers that here in the US both "conservatives" and "liberals" like "Big Government" -- the liberals want to design a welfare state that will ensure that everyone has clean air and water, a decent education, and a minimal subsistance to those no lucky enough to be born to wealth or to have the right contacts, while the conservatives would like to set up a police state that will regulate political and religious expression, especially those that might be inconvenient to those in power.

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"Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism -- biblical literalism -- is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true." -- Katha Pollitt