re: #41 Slumbering Behemoth

Religion has as much influence in a individual’s life as they permit it to, and that is as it should be.

In American politics as a whole, it has far too much, and not for the greater good. In this area, I would like to see that influence greatly decreased.

yeah if it recedes though, it’ll probably be replaced with something worse, like even more strident tribal divisions

because that’s really what we’re talking about when we talk about fundamentalists, we’re not talking about religion at all, we’re talking about groups of people who hate the Other, and that won’t go away. it’s just being dressed up as religion, it could easily be dressed up as sports (EDL) or science (eugenics)