Fractal Wrongness

I have a paper to write, and the creative juices aren't flowing, so i figure a good rant might get me back on track. This happened a few days ago, and I'm still seething about it quite a bit. I don't think this will come out quite as thought-out as a Jeremy entry, but I'll give it a stab.

I was called stupid for believing that the fact of evolution is a thing.

I never thought I'd see the day, but apparently these things do actually happen. I always thought of the blissfully ignorant theist was somehow detached from my world. Still there but, somehow not a part of my daily life.

Like Canada...

But this guy was a piece of work. My brother moves boxes at a local liquor store and called me at the end of his shift. He had gotten into a discussion with a man I simply had to meet to believe. After an hour and a half of heated debate, the man had
-Called me stupid for believing in evolution
-said that homosexuals have a mental disorder
-condescended on me for not having read the entire bible
-contradicted himself more times than I can count.

This man suffers from an illness that's been circling around the internet. It's called "Fractal Wrongness" It is something that happens when someone's world view is so wrong, you can't begin to tackle any point of their argument, because the wrongness is a never ending circle of ignorance fueled bullshit. This man was so sure of himself that he dismissed me on simply "not knowing shit", the smug little look on his face just screaming "I don't have to provide a compelling argument because I know I'm right." This guy was so set in his hateful bigotry, I don't think he heard a word I said. All of my arguments bounced off his little force-field, and no matter how much I spoke of homosexual teen suicide, or text book evidence of evolution, or how taking rights away from people is largely considered a bad thing, none of it mattered in the slightest.

This is what gets to me. I truly believe that in cases like these, Religion can be a virus. It takes root in someone's brain and eats away at what is right and wrong. These things, these VERY morally obvious things, are somehow damaged on such a dangerous level, the person's sense of morals gets twisted. They think their entitled to have things their way, and if a different way makes them uncomfortable, they shouldn't have to be exposed to it. What scares me is that these people aren't evil, and they aren't stupid. Yet somehow they have these evil opinions instilled in them. This man truly doesn't care that opinions like his are the reason that teens are killing themselves. This guilt bating and hate mongering has to stop.

Of course, I don't speak of all religious people. I know many people that don't think that gay people are mentally ill, and believe that evolution is responsible for diversity on this planet, but there are those that have sat in a pew and been spoon-fed their worldview by a priest or pastor, and I think that honestly, closed mindedness is killing this country.

This man decided he would quiz me with trivial facts, and when I didn't know them, he definitely felt justified in his, "your young and you don't know shit" argument. I know from speaking to this man that his "intensive research" on evolution involved a night looking at creationists attempts at debunking evolution. Googeling "Why Evolution is wrong" and researching it are two different fucking things. There where so many logical fallacies that I don't think I could even name them all.

The worst part of this is, this man simply has a fundamentally damaged moral compass. He is wrong on so many levels, and yet,

He is still more moral than the monster depicted in his holy book

I'm Zach, and thanks for reading. (I'm just kidding, we have no readers! XD)