GOP lawmaker: Mass shootings are result of children being taught theory of evolution [View all]
State Rep. Gary Hopper believes teaching children the theory of evolution results in a hopelessness that is one of the primary factors motivating teenagers to commit mass shootings.
In Hoppers telling of evolutionary theory which he recounted during an episode of his online talk show, Rock, Paper, Hand Grenades there was nothing, and out of some freak accident, everything. The earth just happened to be exactly in the right location for life to be created there, he said. Life was an inadvertent accident.
If you are a child raised in a situation and youre depressed, you could look at that particular piece of information and conclude that we are no better or worse than any other parasite on the planet, Hopper said. And if you follow the logic of the science in school today, not only are you a parasite on the planet, you are destroying the host that you are born on.
So thats one variable. Hopelessness. No point. You have no point in your life, Hopper concluded.
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