The religious are trying desperately to maintain it's iron grip around the minds of the masses. Anything that threatens that hold is considered an enemy not only of the church but of their god. I will go so far as to state that they would even attribute these opposing forces to the one and only scapegoat of Christianity, poor old Satan.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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