Dennett, again

Professor Daniel Dennett is, of course, a much smarter person and much more prominent scholar than I am or ever will be.  That said, I regard it as a pretty reliable indicator of moral unseriousness for a person to believe, as Dennett apparently does, that:

In the United States, the problem [i.e., theocracy] is no less real for being less dramatic: There are many deeply religious people who believe that they may democratically impose more and more of their creed on the nation, by simply exercising their First Amendment rights to free expression and creating thereby a climate of opinion that renders opposition by secularists politically ineffective.  This is a grave danger to democracy, more subversive, in fact, than anything Al Qaeda threatens.

Come again?  It is a "grave danger to democracy" for religious believers to "exercis[e] their First Amendment rights to free expression"?  It strikes me that the more "grave danger to democracy" would be if brilliant philosophers came to believe that, in order to make "secularists" more "politically []effective," the state ought to -- in the interest of protecting democracy, of course -- curtail the "rights to free expression" of religious believers.

There's a lot of other strange stuff in this essay.  Check it out.

Also, this is Rosie O'Donnell, on "The View", reminding us that "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam."  Goodness.