A Google search for "Christian flag" yielded 21,200 links and 360 images. Apparently there is a "battle" over teaching evolution is Kansas schools. A battle?? An IMAX film about volcanoes is being referred to as "controversial" because it mentions evolution. Some theaters in the South have refused to show the film. (Read a reprint of Cornelia Dean's New York Times piece here.)
Now I know the following will not be "controversial," as no one who actually reads this is likely to be offended, but I'd just like to write it down anyway:
Dear Christians,
Feel free to be Christian and do Christian stuff and love Jesus and believe all the ridiculous crap in a 2,000-year-old book about talking snakes, tiny boats that can somehow accommodate two of every animal on the planet, dudes just hanging out in whale stomachs, rivers of blood, a rain of frogs, unbridled inbreeding, and countless exhortations by a "loving god" demanding wholesale slaughter, family-member sacrifices, etc. But fucking keep it to yourself. Don't threaten everybody else's ability to live a normal, well-reasoned life with your wacky myths and arbitrary proscriptions. If you're being opressed by scientifically verifiable hypotheses, there are plenty of private schools out there that are more than happy to teach your kids about the spontaneous creation of two white people 5,000 years ago in a magical garden filled with talking animals and restricted access to certain kinds of fruit. Send them to one. Believe what you want. Just get your bullshit out of the courts and out of my life.
Yours in Jesus,
A Concerned Non-Christian
I will now leave you with an image that should reduce your brain -- perhaps your very soul -- to rubble:
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