Since there are some that refer to this jovial correspondent as "Bob, the Atheist", you know where my sympathies lie. But there are a couple point you young folks have missed.

Mrrzy, you say you laugh at the "foolish faithful". Well, it is good to laugh at at human folly of any sort (as long as you chuckle at your own follies, as well). But when one laughs at the dangerous ones, one often fail to take them seriously. Huckabee's name may be funny, but the power and money behind him isn't.

It's the "true believer" that's the real threat here, no matter what the cause. The cause can be religion, politics, science, pseudoscience, or traditional folk music. The gleam in the eyes and the derranged laugh is the same.