Those Dangerous Dispensationalists

Interesting art exhibition by one Jill Greenberg who has caused a sensation by making a political statement out of photos of crying babies. To get the photos, she had to get the kids to cry, ususally be giving the kids a lollypop and then taking it away. One might argue this does no permanent harm to the kids, but it does seem rather - shall we say - insensitive? But that isn't the gist of this post.

Quoted in the press release for the exhibition is Bill Moyers' 2005 piece There is no Tomorrow, which gently savages evangelicals and all politicians who are supported by evangelicals.

"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. The offspring of ideology and theology are not always bad but they are always blind. And that is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts. "