[PetroniusMaximus]

"If it allows me to avoid the rapture for another 1,000 years, count me in."

It won't.

I've already seen the attitude you expressed fomenting in the writings of liberal elites. These "smarter-then-thou" secularists want to re frame this war on terror as a "War on Religious Fundamentalism" and turn the power of the State against all "fundamentalist" believers (Christian or Muslim) - regardless of their temperament or intentions.

BTW - you might want to check this out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103363/posts
"As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc."

[spatso]

"We oppose all forms of liberalism"

A laundry list of in the form of a vanity rant that rejects the foundations of a liberal democracy is really not very helpful. If there is something that characterizes a conservatives nature it is our belief in the rule of law and a representative liberal democracy that asserts the right of the individual over the will of the collective.

I think you might want to try again taking into account my right to be whatever to hell I want to be. I happen to be a person of faith. But, that is a matter of choice on my part. Don't tell me or anyone else how I can choose to be an autonomous person exercising my individual freedom. You lose me the moment you start telling me what I have to be. Who put you in charge of the faith police. Which religions are on your list acceptable faiths?