Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?

[Rhondazvous]

Such a world exists only in their minds.

But that's exactly the problem. It exists in all of their minds.

And as such, whenever they start to develop political clout (particularly in a democracy), they see no fault in that proposition. If  Christianity is true (or Islam, etc.; take your pick), becomes Since  Christianity is true... and then, to them, it is immoral not to apply its principles to others, even if the others don't understand why it's "necessary" to apply those regulations to their lives.

It is the entire basis of the Moral Majority movement that sprung up out of the Evangelicals in the Reagan years through the late 90s, and which continues to this day. We keep saying "the Justices would not allow it", forgetting that if the fundies can elect a radical into the Oval Office, he would happily stack the Supreme Court with Justices who are as religious-fanatic as Thomas and Scalia, ones who'd be glad to give a wink and a nod to theocracy in America.

That would be horrid. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale gives us a pretty good idea of what a Christian theocracy would look like in the United States. We also have the Salam witch hunts, the crusades and the Inquisition.

They say they want to take the country back. Back to where?

You want to contemplate something terrifying? Something that will haunt your dreams and keep you awake at night? Imagine the surveillance technology the police and FBI use today in the hands of fundamentalists who have the power to force theocracy on us.

What's sad is if you tell Americans what could happen, the first thing they do is close their eyes and play their conspiracy theory card.