CrystalGeezer
My secret's my enzyme.
Personally, I couldn't care less if anyone thought that Eve was created from Adam’s rib; that the world rests on the back of a turtle; that the Sun god rides around the earth in a fire chariot; etc. So long as it doesn't affect me. But therein lies the problem. I am affected on a practical level. Churches get tax exemptions to the tune of about $71 billion dollars per year... while they drain public-funded resources. While folks like you and me foot their bill. Further, national policies are often shaped by christians in this country (U.S.). Right to an abortion; right to contraception; right to have kinky, consensual sex; right to refuse medical treatment; right to die; right to buy booze on a Sunday; etc. These civil rights are constantly under attack. They also advance discrimination, e.g., Mormons spending ghastly sums in support of Prop 8 which is against gay-marriage. They favor institutionalized discrimination, which bleeds into the fabric of our society. And not to mention that they have attempted to thwart advances in science, e.g., stem-cell research, which obviously can save lives. And they want to teach creationism in science classes, and favor curriculum that oppose critical thinking. The aforementioned is just in the US alone. In present day. This doesn't even contemplate the malignancy that is fundamentalist Islam. Every time a TSA agent cups my 'nads when I go through airport security, I'm reminded what a blight on our existence they are. So you ask how can anyone care? I think the better question is, how could anyone not care?
There's a difference between church and God.