Reply To: Good News: And No Religion, Too
The doomsday-sayers among Christians are not just the U.S. type, but the fanatical sects attached to Eastern Orthodoxy too, real Athanasians, creationist and armageddonist. They descend in a direct line from the fanatics of the early centuries C.E.
The Russian state church has even named a 19th century Russian saint the patron of nuclear weapons, and its bishops sprinkle holy water over the missiles.
The best Christians, ready-made for socialism, are the Amish, Mennonites and Hutterites.
The modern Catholics are fine by me too. They don’t try to convert people, accept evolution, and are international, unlike the Orthodox churches.
S.J. Gould says that Italian seminarians he spoke to were astounded to hear that half of Americans reject Darwin.