Fox News Guest Blames Mass Shootings On Fact That Evolution Is Taught In Schools

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The head of a prominent Christian conservative policy organization appeared on Fox News Sunday arguing that the reason the U.S. has seen an uptick in mass shootings is because schools now teach evolution.

President of Family Research Council Tony Perkins said the U.S. doesn’t need more gun laws, it needs Christianity back in the “public square.”

“I mean look, we’ve taught our kids that they come about by chance through primordial slime and we’re surprised that they treat their fellow Americans like dirt,” Perkins said. “It’s time we talk about the result of the left’s systematic march through our institutions, driving religious expression from the public square.”

“It’s tragic and at some point we have to realize we have a problem as a nation, and the problem is not the absence of laws, it’s an absence of morality – really, the result of a decades-long march through the institutions of America, driving religion and God from the public square,” Perkins continued.

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  1. Would it be unkind to label this stupid? Well, let’s see, is there an uptake of gun violence in Europe? They teach evolution there.

  2. Christianity is not in conflict with evolution. The Catholic Church has said so for 60 years, and most mainline protestant churches never had an issue. It’s just the evangelical outliers who do.

  3. Yeah, need to get religion back in the public square… That’s only killed countless millions of people in the past few thousand years.

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    “I mean look, we’ve taught our kids that they come about by chance through primordial slime and we’re surprised that they treat their fellow Americans like dirt,” Perkins said.

    It’s one thing to “come from primordial slime”, but an entirely other thing to continue to behave like primordial slime by willingly choosing to do nothing in the face of gun terror, unique to America.

  5. Part and parcel of the Fascist Research Council’s bullshit.

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