Big airplane ride, small ideas discussed

So our boy Tony is going to talk to the far right christians of America, I assume, because they are paying him to do so. I have no idea really, but I assume it is because it is one of the few paying gigs he can get. Who else would pay, presumably, large sums of money, to such a reviled, and thoroughly disliked character as our failed Prime Minister Abbott, other than those of a similar flock?

Ah, the Christian Right, not content to believe in the big imaginary man in the sky themselves, they must make the rest of us believe in the myths and legends of cave men's ideas of truth too. I always thought that was odd, is odd, that the great big imaginings weren't enough for them to believe in, they have to take the rest of us all down the path of ignorance before they are truely happy.

The christian right, its like having Great Aunt Pauline sitting at the far end of the dinning room table, saying, "I don't like it, I just don't like it," to any ideas that originated in 1960, or since. You know, like a knee jerk reaction to anything in which Great Aunt Pauline wasn't raised as a child to believe. 

"It's just not right." That's pretty much all they have got, because the great big old book of 2000 years old stories told us so, just doesn't really cut it.

Somehow, attempting to make the rest of us believe in what they believe is preserving religious freedom. No irony acknowledged. Is it simply safety in numbers? Or is it, if you are choose to be ignorant of the modern world, you want to be surrounded by people who choose to be ignorant about the modern world? I guess it makes the backward-looking feel better about themselves, if we all gaze backwards together.