Re: [luv-talk] persecuted Atheists

Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):

At what point does one stop writing off the entire region as irredeemably loopy, and attempt to uplift them?

Things will slowly change -- and are changing -- for the better with a changing demographic and inevitable inroads of outside influences. There's a problematic set of folks in their 70s and 80s who are the core of the problem: Absent an immortality serum in the next few years, that problem solves itself. You might find sane conservative commentator David Frum's remarks on that point useful: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/03/11/david-frum-mike-huckabee-br...