Bill D, the ranking of articles and suggestions of related ones that have been overlooked by various segments of the news media is of interest - if it is a realistic evaluation.

I flipped through channels this morning and landed on Joseph Campbell - The Message of the Myth, part two of the series Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers. Timing was perfect, as he described why the move to try to adopt old principles from the ancient parts of religions is to force the relics of an ancient world on modern cultures. The world was very small when some of these religions formed and their allegorical stories to teach behavior no longer fit an industrial world around the globe. What we're seeing with the xtian nationalists is exactly that - trying to fit the modern industrial world into the cookie cutter of a biblical world written about 2000 years ago. Texts written by men, for men, in an age of slavery, pushing back against animism and Zoroastrians and Egyptian pharaohs and who knows what else. Though I think they're trying for the 1850s, not the year 1.