re: #53 pre-Boomer Marine brat

IMHO, this is not religion which Berman is not-so-subtly focused upon.
It’s what I label capital-P Proselytizing — where the proselytizer becomes so caught up in his mission that it, itself, becomes his raison d’etre. (I use that in one of my dictionary’s two definitions: “justification for existence”.)

/a slippery self-righteous slope … downwards

Creationists are blinded by an agenda. Rather then open their minds to a God who transcends time and space, a God they claim to believe in, they would rather mold God into what they believe He should be. Instead of being open to the realization that maybe God could have used a process like evolution to mold current species, they want to lock him in their carefully constructed box and then ram that box down our throats. Their actions give Christians a bad name and do incredible damage to the witness of Christians around the world.