re: #6 Kafitrar
Fred Clark at the Slacktivist blog refers to creationism as a symptom of and defense for the “clobber-text hermeneutic designed to defend white ownership of slaves.” Other fruits of the hermeneutic include gender inequality and anti-LGBT bigotry. patheos.com
That is both a simple and a profound insight on Fred’s part. It is obvious to anyone who is familiar with the history of American fundamentalism, but only once it is pointed out in plain language. At a purely anecdotal level, I just realized that I have literally never known a young-earth creationist who was not also a defender of the Confederacy if their views on both were known.