30 days

We've been catching up on a series on TV called '30 Days' - the brainchild of Morgan Spurlock (the guy who did Supersize Me). The idea is that someone from one walk of life or with one point of view, volunteers to go and live with people from the diametrically opposite life or point of view for 30 days. The most intriguing one so far was where an atheist volunteered to go and live with a Christian fundamentalist family. The wife of the family was relatively open-minded but holy shit - the husband. He was so arrogant and so blinkered I don't know how he manages to live his life. He absolutely refused to believe there was anything other than the Bible's point of view. He couldn't (or wouldn't) accept that people could live their lives without having a (as he put it) reference manuscript (ie. the Bible). The atheist was quite happy to let others have their own views, but this guy was so damned arrogant he refused to let the atheist have any say in anything. He couldn't (or wouldn't) accept that science and nature and evolution existed, and insisted that everything was God's way. At one point he was preaching how his point of view was to not simply blindly follow and believe published literature "like scientists do". But when he was challenged as to why he blindly followed and believed The Bible, he clammed up and left the room.
Wow.
That man is seriously fucked up. He has based his life so strongly on a work of fiction that he refuses to believe anything else exists.

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