"We have a village idiot in this country. It's called fundamentalist Christianity," Frank Schaeffer, author of "Crazy for God," said on the MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show last night. He was on the show to speak to the recent poll that found that 35 percent of New Jersey conservatives think President Obama is the anti-Christ.
Schaeffer used the "village idiot" term because he said fundamentalist Christians have been "left behind by modernity, by science, by education, by art, by literature."
This subculture of fundamentalist faith distrusts facts, he said. From birth to home schooling to religious school to evangelical college, they have been raised to reject facts. "They believe in a young earth, 6,000 years old." They think that all news is related to the end of time and Christ's return, he said.
"A village can not reorganize village life to suit the village idiot," he said.
"The rest of us are getting on with our lives, while these people are standing on a hilltop, waiting for the end," he said. They are a slice of the population waiting for Jesus to come back, and looking forward to Armageddon, he said.
Schaeffer concluded by suggesting to the fundamentalist Christians: "Go wait on the hilltop for the end and the rest of us will reconstruct our country."
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If only they didn't vote!
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