Among the best arguments against theocracy, by any

Among the best arguments against theocracy, by any sect, that I've ever read.

The attitudes described....against homosexuality, subservience of women, World Jewry conspiracy theories, authoritarianism and 'heresy'........ are widely shared by American evangelicals who continue to try to insinuate their beliefs into schoolbooks and into public schools, mostly unsuccessfully. Still no 'intelligent design' being taught along side the theory of evolution as an 'alternative view'.

But not for want of trying.

Blasphemy is an Iron Age construct that is a characteristic reaction of 'true believers', religious and political, to any challenges to their beliefs. Found largely on the right in this country and among the far left in the few remaining communist countries. Both eternally searching for apostates and heretics.

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Attitudes towards blasphemy amongst Britain’s Muslim population are highly regressive. A poll commissioned by Channel 4 last year found that 20 percent of British Muslims believe that British publications should have no right to publish cartoons of Mohammed.

The same poll also found large percentages of British Muslims favoured the banning of homosexuality (52 percent), the introduction of sharia law (23 percent), and the legalization of polygamy (31 percent). The poll also found that 39 percent of British Muslims believe that women should always obey their husbands, and 35 percent of British Muslims believe that Jews have too much power in the UK.

These numbers were all dramatically higher than the general British population, who were polled on the same questions.

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