text: It's remarkable that people still believe in words that ignorant and primitive men wrote millennia ago.  This applies to most of the world's current religions.  For Christianity specifically, the teachings of Jesus were undermined almost immediately by incorporating the non-gospel parts of the Bible.  The upshot is there's a spectrum of "Christian" values, with conservatives/evangelicals/fundamentalists on the eye-for-en-eye end (which also included bigotry, genocide, slavery, misogyny) and more liberal Christians on the turn-the-other-cheek end (which includes tolerance, looking after the poor and sick, etc).  The anti-Christ's-teachings Christians are the ones who complain about being "persecuted" and about God being removed from public places.  They also value the (misogynist) 10 commandments, rather than the 2nd great law.  I would rather see Christian action (in the sense of Christ's teachings) than the self righteous lamenting and bigotry of the uber-religious conservatives.