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Religionists, it seems, are running on a combination of - as Hunter Thompson used to put it - "Fear and Loathing".

"Fear" of eternal damnation and "Loathing" of any ideas that are contrary.

Add to that the untenable, personal consequences of a gaping, psychic hole that would be in evidence as a result of rejecting that with which they were innoculated - and the conditions for fanaticism have been generated.

Since the Peace, Love and The Common Good factors are already embedded in dozens of other philosophies, the religionists are left only with their unique, spiritual fantasies.... an obligation to defend them and an equal mandate to promote them.

These are not the behaviours of an evolved people.

Meanwhile, I put it to readers that our insistence on the value of "respecting" others' religions is merely a thinly-disguised attitude that is more accurately described, rather, as a "forced tolerance".

Were the rationalisations and justifications provided by religionists offered on any other subject, they would be described - immediately - as the rantings of the delusional.

But, no. This is, somehow, "different".....?

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