Nahh, the obsessives/crazies are the evangelicals. The proof is in your last line of your post.
Just take a step back and imagine you’ve come to Earth from another planet, and you see the chaos, death and destruction in Gaza, human beings who look and live in quite similar ways, yet one side believes in one kind of superstition, and the other believes in a different one.
We need to hear more atheist voices in government and education speaking out against pre-modern ideas about the world, to bring some sanity.
It often starts when kids are young and impressionable. Children shouldn’t have a religion forced on them. Let them find one later, if they want.
People should be free to believe in whatever – Jedi, Jesus or Boris Johnson, but when it comes to telling lies and waging war over it, they need to be kept in check.
Further removing religion from politics and public life, and a greater spreading of the word about evolution and a scientific understanding the human condition would be a significant step in the right direction. If that sounds radical, it illustrates how far down the religious rabbit hole some of us currently are.
