Recently, there was an article here about a "mom" in the UK who claimed she didn't want the existence of dinosaurs being taught to children. "She" claimed that dinosaurs don't exist and to teach children they did is to fill them with bad values because "Dinosaurs are evil". CADministry even talks about burning toy dinosaurs and disowning their own sister.
The truth is, these "Christians Against Dinosaurs" people are a bunch of internet bullies who, while claiming to be followers of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, are little more than internet bullies who use profanity and threaten people on their facebook page with eternal damnation for believing in dinosaurs; a far cry from the concerned mother who posted the link to their group. In fact, this is the second incarnation of this group. The first was abandoned by its creator when he realized that it was silly to claim that dinosaurs didn't exist. Those who run the current page are little more than zealots who use their outlandish religious views to scare good, loving followers of the Lord into abandoning the sound view that dinosaurs existed.
When I went onto their facebook page, I simply asked "So you don't believe in dinosaurs? Why not? There's so much evidence?" And the response I got was offensive, to say the least! They started cursing at me, telling me I was the devil's play thing, that the devil would eat my scrotum (very embarrassing to use such foul sex talk) and even suggested that I should lick the anus of satan himself? I was appalled! Then they started posting pictures of sinner burning in hell and told me I was next! When I asked to be removed from the group, they mocked me and told me I couldn't. They called me an atheist. An Atheist! I nearly vomited up my communion wafer and mineral water! The thought nearly made me pass out. I begged and pleaded but they still refused. I had to disconnect my internet altogether for days. I spent the next week crying into my wife's shoulder, while my children wept openly to see their father broken by such evil - the likes of which I had assured them did not exist in this world. After some heavy prayer sessions with my local priest and long hours spent in self-reflection, I was able to return to the internet and confront these vile people. But my first post exclaiming that they were wrong about dinosaurs was deleted and then I was removed from their group. My only saving grace that day was the revelation of another page on Facebook called "Dinosaurs Against Christians Who Are Against Dinosaurs" and I found solace there among people of several different belief systems who were dedicated to opposing the evildoers at Christians Against Dinosaurs. You can see that group at www.facebook.com/groups/dacwaad
Eternal damnation scares me, but I know that the God in heaven I pray to every night and worship for hours in church on Sunday did indeed create these wonderful creatures that existed millions of years ago. I accept that God also decided that dinosaurs needed to die so that humans could evolve. In a way, dinosaurs died for us, kind of making them akin to Jesus. If God had wanted to keep them around, there wouldn't have been room for us to come along.
We owe dinosaurs and their sacrifice everything. I just think everyone should know that.