Darwin is to American psychotic evangelicals what depictions of the Prophet Mo' are to psycho Muslims...or something

Creation, a new movie about Darwin, has no American distributor. Yep. Apparently distributors in America are such pansies when it comes to anything not in line with absolutely insane lunatic religious zealotry that no one will pick it up. People here have made fun of the "Muslim world's" reaction to the Danish cartoon controversy. Now we have a case of self-censorship in our own media outlets because of the lunatic fringe.

Really?

Is it really so ridiculous as that?

Is it because of assault-weapon-wielding whack-a-moles who might show up at a screening toting signs that say, "Who was the monkey? Yer momma or yer poppa?" or (ironically enough) "Darwin = Hitler." Who knows?

I have some skepticism that it really is as bad as this. But the longer it takes for an American outlet to pick this up, the more sissified I think our big gun, big oil, big car, big war, big religion, big bag of wind Christo-nationalists have cowed us into becoming.

The land of free and the home of the brave sure isn't looking so brave when it's a fear-mongering quivering pile of simpering jerks who bend over for the Sarah Palins, James Dobsons, and Ken Hams of the world, people so out of touch with anything resembling reality that they actually praise the Lord by building Creation "museums" where truthiness reigns.

Well, I'm not alone in thinking that this is a big quack-a-doodle-dumbster. Even Kent Jones on Rachel Maddow's show at MSNBC has gotten in on it. Maddow ends it right when she ask Jones whether we should be worried about a country that stops believing in/denying things that have long been proven.

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PZ has a post that's a little less screeching than mine (how'd that happen?). He suspects it might just be a little too controversial and not big enough to really be worth it in the world of Michael Bay films.

But, we might have a lot to worry about here when the power of feeble-minded blinder religion controls what I'm allowed to watch because of a perceived threat. That's sad.