The thread seems bogged down in politics. I feel we should consider more "society". The ordinary, everyday people who are swallowing creationism,rapture,and all the other ignorant and backward beliefs and raising their children to believe in them and then sending them out to convert others. That's where the grasroot action is taking place and that's what worries me.Reports over here say a majority of Americans actually believe in angels!
I repeat the point I made earlier, having met two missionaries of the Fundamental cause. Their hysterical laughter at the thought that we once had tails,that we evolved, (they'd never even heard of Neanderthals), their racism,their ignorance of the basic facts of human history, their practice of keeping their children to be educated at home, their derision of any intellectual approach to the subject of religion, their stated belief that every word in the Bible was true.....
Oh yes, they'd burn books if they had half the chance.
Over breakfast the next morning he asked me;
"Do you see us as the enemy?"
"I certainly do." I said."We've been fighting you for thousands of years."
"You submit (his favourite word) to nobody?"
"No"
"You will." he said.
Made me shiver!