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I think it's fine to take strong issue with fundamentalist strains of Islam as being a threat to any hope of continuing the Enlightenment. Much like my feelings about the other two Abrahamic religions and their fundamentalists - I really don't have much patience for any of them meddling in the American experiment. It's one of history's ironies that Islam actually preserved a lot of Western culture, though. Another irony is that you'll find extreme right wing xtians here concern-trolling about extreme right wing Muslims being homophobic, misogynist, etc. The reality, as you point out, though, is that they don't really pose a threat to our way of life in the United States, but the fundamentalist xtians operating under plots like the Seven Mountains Mandate do.
Watching this now. I didn't know Christian Science was more than just a fringe even among xtians...
Couldn't agree more, including what you said about the numbers of kooks. The hardcore antivaccine fringe don't have a whole lot of numbers (yet), and no one voted for this jackass to be in that position, but here we are...
Sigh. Assuming this is true.
Ya Christian Science appears in many different sects and churches. They all have weird rules about health somewhere, some don’t abide by them, but you will find a lot of strange, religious views mixed in with healthcare across this country and world