Listened to Sean Faircloth this Sunday afternoon. Much appreciated his analysis of the rising Christian Right in Canada as in America. Compelling and affirmative of the basic position I have maintained in this gathered circle of perspective.

Today's talk may appear online in the time to come. Till then, here is a lecure congruent with the lecture I heard to day. The key concepts and phrases expressed in this lecture were also expressed in the Kamloops lecture.

Perhaps some will find this intereresting:

A landmark 2006 study, analyzing data from a large survey of Americans, found that atheists “are less likely to be accepted, publicly and privately, than any others from a long list of ethnic, religious and other minority groups.” Writing in the American Sociological Review, researchers noted that “while rejection of Muslims may have spiked in post-9/11 America, rejection of atheists was higher.”