I think what frustrates me most about the Religious Whackos is that such simple commandments —I mean it could be any plainer:

Do unto others as you would have done to you.

have to be qualifed and rationalized. First they objectify people and decide to whom that actually applies. Anyone not exactly like them is ruled out, by some strangled interpretation of scripture.

To enforce this they use some really whacked out version of an afterlife and then follow it up with punishment in this life. When the rest of society doesn’t co-operate, they try to use the law or justify taking matters into their own hands.

THey want a literal world, but can’t abide within their own rules. (I’m thinking of Dr. Tiller)