
First there was the news, back in September, that an award winning British film about the British Unitarian, Charles Darwin, was not going to get U.S. distribution rights because it offended people on the religious right.
Why would it offend? Because it suggested Darwin might have moved from his Unitarian Christian theology to more of an agnostic one. According to a British newspaper the film’s producers say the American religious right waged a campaign against its distribution.
Too bad, because I think the movie looks pretty interesting.
Not all religious denominations have trouble with Darwin. The Roman Catholic church finds nothing incompatible with Darwin’s contributions to science and religion. The title of the story called “Vatican Gives Darwin a Big Birthday Hug, Leaving Creationists on the Fringes,” almost sums it up.
Protestant fundamentalists on the other hand, have an entirely different take. But theirs is a minority position according to…












