MO congregant this am: "They could get ME sick but they're not because I'm covered in His blood!"

[The Magistrate]

8. The Saving Grace Of The West, Sir

Is that a couple of centuries ago we ceased taking our religious belief quite this seriously. Not all of us of course, but enough to change the tenor and tone of our culture and society. Very few of us now view religion as anything worth killing or dying over. That is why the West came to the predominant role in the world it has enjoyed for a good century and a half at least (though the change was set in motion somewhat earlier). It is rather shocking to see these ancient attitudes cropping up, among people who to a casual glance seem like anybody else, but whose minds are furnished with attitudes that would not seem much out of place a thousand years ago. People are going to die over this, like it or not, and the deaths cannot be confined to the devoted who court them, and declare their 'faith' a sure shield against them.