>Well God and Religion seem to be the leading cause of death and hate in the world - and its been that way forever. Heck that's what just caused 9/11 and blah blah blah...
>Just my opinion - but hey if you want to belive in taking snakes with posioned apples, magical burning bushes, people living in whales, heck people living to be 900 years old, a big floating entity in the sky that "knows all" (ooohhhaaahhh), a dude poping back to life after he's been dead, vigins giving birth (uhhh prior to the test tube baby of course), people walking on water - water turning to wine (or was it blood...) ... well anyway... in MY opinion that seems a tad ridicilious for a grown, rational person. But like I said - this is JUST my opinion - and hey no offense met towards any ..uhhh "belivers". But again I aint gonna try to make it a law that people can't think this way - or make it a law that they have too. I will agree with about being concerned about governments turning opinion into law - it's a very dangerous move, and one that we here in the USA should not be silent about. People are already becoming afraid to have a voice here - heck I said something in a 7-11
>the other day along the lines of "I think the war in Iraq is wrong" and the clown in line behind me get really REALLY bent out of shape and said I was "unamerican". I saw a poll the other day that asked a bunch of middle-school aged kids if they thought the government should try to silence people with unpopular views...and like 40% of them said yes! Geeeze .... see ya spend all yer money building smart-bombs and not on education, and yer freakn bombs end up smarter than the kids! aaarrrgggHH!

Un-american (adj.): Wicked, intolerable, heathenish. From: The Devil's Dictionary

Indeed, the things you mention sound quite frightening.