people who believe time stopped 2000 years ago and rely on training manual written by human males, not an actual god, will stop at nothing to keep their power

However, some of those dudes do perform a public service. Why just last Saturday, D.U. had a post about a minister in Linden, N.J.

He was performing exorcisms and sometimes they didn't work. So he went the extra mile. He sucked the Devil out of a couple of men's bodies, by way of their penis.

Now that's going beyond the call of duty.

It either ignores or is apathetic to the effects in various regions. I always say the bar to church ratio is a better indicator. Never move to a town that's on the back side of that ratio.

From what I know about fundamentalists, evangelicals, they are fanatically DEFENSIVE. They've always seen the outside world as a menace, a threat. And so their core beliefs are centered around resisting it. "Resisting temptation," and rival churches. There is good, and there is evil - and nothing in between.

So more than any other believers, they've resisted change. At least on the official record.

And oddly? Their remarkably flat percentage is almost exactly the same, as the also VERY consistent number as those who approve of Trump.

I think it has to do with always seeing your group as threatened constantly; and having systematically setting up strong defenses from the beginning. And therefore being utterly convinced ... and strongly resistant to anything that seems to disprove their religion. Being ... immovable.

Something similar to fanticism. And? Maybe reflective of some kind of almost permanent, perennial underclass?

Those are all incredibly, remarkably, unbelievably straight lines, in any case, for a graph.

SOMETHING is going on.

Who will be Judas?

... when it declares its origin to be an infallible god.