[tpaine]

Yep, -- "hard core" Christians, professional militant atheists, and
Bible thumpers scare the bejesis out of most everyone, exactly as the sandmaggots do.

They are all fanatics:

"The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation."

We are thus driven to the conclusion that the trouble with our species is an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
-Arthur Koestler-

[ArGee]

Please see #28 and respond if you have time.

Shalom.