Content like this makes me feel even more agnostic.

"...none of us have the right to judge anybody else's religious beliefs..."

Oh yes I do. We all do, and we all should. If religious belief were allowed just a little more scrutiny and a little less of the sacred-cow treatment everyone - including the devout believers - would be better off. Any dogma that can't withstand criticism has no business existing in the first place. Any faith that is too weak to answer it's critics and must instead adopt a doctrine of censoring those critics has no ground to stand on.

she's so sexy. i bet she could kick that author's butt into the rapture.

In my wide network of friends, relatives, enemies, and well-wishers, I don't know a single person who has read the Left Behind series, and I would bet the majority of them have never even heard of it.

(Of course, were I to do an actual survey of everyone I know, I'd probably be surprised to find that more of them know of, or have even read the series than I would guess.)

I bring this up because I find it very interesting how solipsistic the Culture Wars are... many of us move within circles that tend to hold similar beliefs, and find it hard to believe that anyone rational might believe something different.

Watching these kinds of segments often underscores for me how little I know of the other half of America. It is strange that we are all countrymen, because I often find the Religious Right's beliefs more alien than, say, the beliefs of Kalahari Bushmen... and probably they feel the same.

(And I say all this as a contrarian, centrist Liberal, who frequently is at odds with the more orthodox of my tribe...)