Indeed. I, for one, expected more open-minded and conciliatory language from such clearly rational, reasonable people.
[Lead up and long explanation omitted]
How long until fundamentalist/creationst Christians self-identify, and indeed become identified by the non, as a distinct ethnic group? The Amish are already there but they represent less than a thousandth of a percent of the total population of the USA. So who cares? Leave 'em alone and let them make a living selling nice hand-crafted stuff to us English in their little isolated utopias. But what happens when 10% of our society thinks different beliefs are not only wrong but deserving of shame and pity, and that the proven science that runs the reactors that power their homes, engineered the motors in their cars, created the polymers and medicine that save actual lives in ways the average Joe can’t even comprehend–is all based on bogus lies whipped up by the devil? It’s one thing to knowingly and harmlessly reject “advances” in the way the Amish do, but it’s absolutely destructive to a society to deny the reality of a proven and aoolied science; to consider education and critical thought as the subtle workings upon the mind of an incomprehensible evil.
At what point does the greater society, as Gagundathar dances around without actually calling for it, say enough is enough and institutionalize, formally or informally, discimination against such a large portion of its own? And when does that degenerate into ethnic cleansing?
Snopes has revised it to “True”. I’m Christian myself, and I don’t agree with the test’s angle.