Tim Giago: The Christian Bible as a weapon of mass destruction

23.8.11

Indianz.Com > Tim Giago: The Christian Bible as a weapon of mass destruction Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry appear to be leading a parade of GOP presidential candidates in front of a marching band playing, “Onward Christian Soldiers.”



Perry insists that evolution and global warming are merely theories among many theories and implies that creationism should be taught equally with evolution in America’s schools. Perry says there have been many climate changes since God created the earth. “God is how we got here,” Perry said. Bachmann is right in the thick of things with beliefs as religiously oriented as Perry.



Now I don’t know how you feel about this, but to me it is frightening. To have someone else’s religious philosophy shoved into my face is objectionable to say the least. If either one of these Christian candidates is elected president of the United States it is reprehensible that their personal religious beliefs will color all of their decisions affecting all of the people.



It concerns me deeply because as a Lakota man, born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, I saw firsthand how a religious sect can come on to my homelands and have a lasting impact upon my traditional spiritual beliefs, my language and my culture.