Roger Ebert is quickly becoming a force for reason to be reckoned with. He recently posted at his blog against creationists and New Age believers — stating outright that they should not be president of the United States. And naturally Sarah Palin and today’s Republican party, as well as the far-left bullshit-peddling new-agers, play heavily in his examples. Considering how often one hears that people would not vote for an atheist or an intellectual as president, this is a most refreshing change!

It’s curious that so many people of different camps are offended by opposing beliefs, but will accept just about anything in their own. Most progressives believe Kirk Cameron is playing the Village Idiot in his infamous video explaining how God shaped the banana to fit the nature of the human hand (still unreleased: his video about watermelons). Most non-New Agers believe Shirley MacLaine is nutzoid for her citations of her previous lifetimes. On mainstream talk shows, MacLaine gets away with it by kidding herself. Mike Huckabee is a charmer when he answers that, yes, he does believe the earth is pretty much 10,000 years old. But don’t let anyone unskilled tell Jay, David, Craig or Regis such beliefs and they’re taking a chance. The audience will take their cue from the host in deciding whether to laugh at them (MacLaine yes, Creationist no.)

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