I have to mention that my background was very religious. Altar boy, Catholic grammar school with nuns, junior seminary, novitiate, and a couple of years in a major seminary, singing in church choir, teaching the Catholic version of Sunday School, and with many friends who are priests both the diocesan and religious order kinds, teacher at a Catholic high school at the beginning of my teaching career, and friends who share my background all were a part of it.

When Vatican II was going on our assistant pastor, Father Morgan, turned the altar to face the people, had the mass in English, and got the congregation singing the moment the idea was accepted by the people in Rome as if he had a spy in the room.

My philosophy and theology teachers covered the gamut from conservative to liberal, and came from all over the world. Even in high school that was the case, so we saw religion on a wide screen, not a narrow one. And, although religious belief was not compromised, it never became as crazy as it has become.

And, even when it came to science, science was as honored for itself as theology was for itself. There was no conflict, no battle, and none of the weirdness that now seems to have crept into religion’s present day view of science.

In my recollections, the religious people in my past taught religion, the loving, accepting kind for the most part, and did not look for scapegoats or odd things to worry about.

They attempted in their own way to preach the good news without all the negativity we see now.

It might be a rosy memory not universally experienced, but the experience was mine, and not too bad of a one at that.

But now there is too much religious craziness like what is happening in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Alabama, and this.

The group is called Christians Against Dinosaurs Ministries (CAD, really. They have a Facebook page).

It is a group that believes that dinosaurs are a recent hoax, and that children in schools are being subjected to this misinformation and harmed by it.

Dinosaurs are an affront to Jesus.

One of its leaders wrote on another website, Mumsnet, “I am getting sick and tired of dinosaurs being forced on our children. Something needs to be done. The science behind them is pretty flimsy, and I for one do not want my children being taught lies. Did you know that nobody had even heard of dinosaurs before the 1800s, when they were invented by curio-hungry Victorians?”
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Besides not being real, dinosaurs “lack family values”.

As proof, the poster from CAD related a story of children at her children’s school being reduced to tears when one of the boys in class had become “bestially-minded” after hearing about dinosaurs, running around the room growling before biting three other kids.

She is so strong in her beliefs, that she disowned her own sister because she “foolishly gave my two youngest some dinosaur toys for Christmas. After telling her to get out of my house, I burnt the dinosaurs. My children were delighted because they know that dinosaurs are evil. I am fortunate that my family has been very supportive, and has disowned my children’s former aunt.”

As further evidence of this dinosaur hoax, there is a Youtube video in which this concerned parent explains that “ a fossil is not actually a piece of bone. It’s actually a bone that was once in the ground that has been filled with limestone, calcium, and other stone-like deposits, so at the end of the day, it’s a rock made out of rocks. So, you have a rock that’s [six-inches long], and you hand it to a paleontologist, who chips away at it until you have something looking like a bone — and that is a fossil.”

No matter what type of rocks paleontologists find in the ground they will do what they can to make it a dinosaur fossil so they can keep their jobs.

I went to the Mumsnet site and read the posting speaking against dinosaurs in this person’s children’s school, and found there has been a petition signed by 214 parents and passed on to the headmaster who is going to present it for consideration by the school’s governors.

Headmaster and governors imply a private, if not exclusive school.

To get any real information on the group, Christians Against Dinosaurs, a person needs to join the group, and I don’t want to do that.

I have read that the group plans a protest at Ken Ham’s Creation Museum in Kentucky where there are exhibits with humans co-existing with dinosaurs.

A Christian vs Christian battle. One group believing differently than another in the same religion  opposing the other.  Where have we seen this before?

Although it is a closed group, it does explain its purpose on their welcoming page: “God still did not create dinosaurs, and his work needs to go on”.