re: #95 researchok

You made the remark that the American religious right were among ‘the nastiest elements of humanity’- a remark that is spectacularly absurd on many levels.

I’d put the current crop of vitriolic evangelical Christians in the same trash bin as the Taliban, Al Qaeda, certain Ultra-Orthodox Jews, etc. Every religion is a population, and ever population statistically has its share of assholes (so do atheists). None of them are immune, although the nature of religion itself seems to involve a promise of some kind of inoculation from assholeness.