I hope HBO will release it too. I think it just got aired this week. I'll keep an eye out for it. There are a couple of 6 minute clips on YouTube (of course
).
When I see these documentaries, they are preaching to the choir (pardon the pun), but I can't help but wonder what the real numbers of these "extremists" are in the US. A recent AP poll found that 25 percent of those polled, supposedly a random sample, anticipates the second coming of Jesus Christ in 2007. A CBS poll found that 51 percent of those polled believe that God created humans in their present form and two-thirds of Americans want creationism taught alongside evolution. These strike me as incredible numbers, and invoke my skeptical response, yet I have personally seen evidence of a significant degree of pervasiveness of (what I consider) extreme religious beliefs. I guess few of us can speak beyond our personal experience in terms of our understanding of such things. I wish I could get a good grasp of how large this population is, and how influential they really are in terms of politics.