re: #69 Daniel Ballard

Religion, philosophy, education can all fit your description of tool for madmen and comfort to others. Most of us are not madmen.

The power of philosophy and education to direct action, especially of large groups, is less than the power of religion.
I agree, you aren’t all madmen. That’s why I try to avoid attacking individuals about their religion, although I do have a few things to say about religion in general and creationists as a group.

Thankfully it’s power in the US is quite limited. As we can see here. That’s pretty offensive to ordinary kind people of faith. But hey the 1st has that covered, so that’s how the cookie crumbles. We deal with it. Bryan Fischer is a far larger sort of problem.

Plenty of religious billboards around telling us we’re going to hell if we don’t believe. There’s a tit-for-tat game going on.