In my daily quest for the True Our America I come across numerous (very numerous, verging on innumerable) blogs with a steady stream of creationists’ delusions. Occasionally I’m attempted to comment, but usually decide against it as for the most part it is a waste of time.

This was brought home to me recently when I left a meaningful post at one of the Reformed literalists sites, only to have my comment deleted.

They just don’t want to hear the truth.

Still, the burden remains with me, that I have a (even if tiny) responsibility to correct the delusional from their own pitfalls and dead ends down which they seem insistent upon pursuing.

Perhaps it’s a cross I must bear, yet it can be quite frustrating. I’ve dealt with creationists for 30 years and know their routines (they don’t change much over time) and know that it is very rare indeed for one to get the epiphany that they don’t really know that about which they preach so much.

On those rare occasions though I do come across some soul who is undergoing a frame change, sort of a mental rebuilding process (we all do this as we age, hopefully.)

All of this is a long way to get to the point that there have been a few changes over the years and the religious culture in this nation is undergoing another separation. Now, it’s not as big as the Great Schism or even the Reformation, but there is something palpable happening in that the fundamentalists, while getting all the noisier and more dogmatic, are starting to be out numbered by a new form of American Christianity.

Now, the fundamentalists are lamenting this left and right, and attribute it to narcissism or selfishness on behalf of the younger generation. Maybe the younger ones are narcissistic… or maybe they are just burnt out from information overload, courtesy of Twitter and the internet.

To where this will lead I do not know. While the fundamentalist teenagers still do stunts like the walkout the other week of Dan Savage, a great number of 20-something and 30-something church-goers aren’t falling in line.