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As the original poster, I'd like to pipe up:
1. I've re-read all the posts, and, really, I don't see any "anti-Christian zeal" being spread around, at least not until after the post decrying "anti-Christian zeal."
2. As FreeSpeech says, Maher does not speak for all Christians, and those of us who are upset about the Family Research Council's opposition to the vaccine are not angry at all Christians, just the ones who want to enforce their vision of morality on the rest of us.
I'm sorry if anything I said came off as anti-Christian. What I am is anti-ideology. I object to some people's faith in very literal and narrow interpretations of some portions of one of the many religious texts floating around the globe being placed above what common sense, ethics, and human decency would have us do in complex situations like this.
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Incidentally, I get equally pissed when people on the left do the same thing - essentially hewing to the "bible" of liberal doctrine and supporting policies that are in step with liberal dogma even when there's no evidence to suggest that those policies actually work to accomplish anything. Pisses me off when people don't use their brains, that's all.
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