It is easy to understand the Front Line Christian groups supporting ID and Biblical Creationism, after all that is where the money is. It is a simple case of Biblical Christianity being about the easiest way to get rich as long as you can maintaining the pool of ignorant gullible folk ready and willing to send in the dollars to pay for the public clowns known as Televangelists and Creation Scientists.
Really, that is it. It's about MONEY and how to get the money from the suckers pockets (and now from the tax coffers as well) into the pockets of the leaders and snake oil salesmen. If they can open the cash flow stream to siphon off even more tax dollars, they can get even richer.
There is little money anymore in being a mime, or juggler, or even magician, but being a Creation Scientist, now there is a profession that will warm the cockles of any mercenary heart.
Today the key is in niche marketing. The general field of Faith Healer and Demagogue is pretty crowded and competition for the suckers' dollars is fierce so looking for new revenue streams is a reasonable tactic, and what better revenue stream than public education, one of the largest tax revenue sources available. If they can duplicate the financial success of the Faith Based Initiative tax revenue grab they will be thrilled. And potentially, the education revenue stream will dwarf that of the Faith Based Initiatives.
Faith Driven Ignorance is a Growth Industry.
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