The Most Dangerous Elected Representative in the United States

Is Minnesota State Representative Mike Beard the most dangerous elected politician in America?

Representative Beard supports coal mining in Minnesota and isn't worried about depleting natural resources. Not at all. Why? Here's what Representative Beard told MinnPost:  "God is not capricious. He's given us a creation that is dynamically stable. We are not going to run out of anything."

Beard isn't worried about nuclear war either. He said, "How did Hiroshima and Nagasaki work out? We destroyed that, but here we are, 60 years later and they are tremendously effective and livable cities. Yes, it was pretty horrible.  But, can we recover? Of course we can."

Scary. Dangerous. Disturbing. It's one thing to hold deep and sincere religious beliefs. It's another thing entirely when these beliefs become a substitute for science and critical thinking by elected representatives.

You can read more from this interview in MinnPost here.

Godless in DC

Thanks to DC Blogs for drawing our attention to the new area blog, Godless in DC: Atheism in the Nation's Capital.

The DC metropolitan area is populated with places of worship. We Love DC talks about the ten mile "Highway to Heaven" along New Hampshire Avenue between the Beltway and Sandy Spring Road, so called because of the number and diversity of houses of worship along that ten mile corridor.

It's fair to say that the number of people in the DC area who believe in a supreme being far outnumber those who don't. Yet non-belief is growing in both interest and numbers, especially among people in their 20's: An estimated 25 to 30 percent of young Americans claim no religious affiliation. Interest in books that discuss the problems with religion, such as Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion and Sam Harris' The End of Faith have become bestsellers. Godless in DC. It will be interesting to see how Godless in DC evolves.