New York Times Ignores The Evidence To Slander Christians As Coronavirus Deniers

“Stop denying science!! … There is a special place in hell for you folks!! If any of your ilk get COVID-19 I hope you stick to your ‘non-science’ beliefs and let someone else have a ventilator.” “This is on you, dumb [%@&]!”

These are examples of messages the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation received recently. What could stir up such anger?

These and similar messages were prompted by Katherine Stewart’s March 27 article “The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response” in The New York Times, in which she targeted the Cornwall Alliance, the organization I founded.

Stewart begins, “Donald Trump rose to power with the determined assistance of a movement that denies science, bashes government and prioritized loyalty over professional expertise. In the current [Coronavirus] crisis, we are all reaping what that movement has sown.” She later describes the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic as incompetent and “in the hands of people who appear to be incapable of running it well.” Tell that to Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx.

But first she identifies the problem as “religious nationalism,” or “Christian nationalism,” which, she says, drives “the hard core of climate deniers” among “religiously conservative Republicans.” “This denial of science and critical thinking among religious ultraconservatives now haunts the American response to the coronavirus crisis,” she insists.
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