"Fashionable" opinion "knows" that traditional believers, and especially those who conceive of God as an active, all-seeing being who actually hears prayers, are stupid, crazy, ignorant and dangerous. But competent social scientists know that these are lies, entirely equivalent to fantasies concerning Jewish conspiracies or orgies in Catholic convents. Nor are these beliefs about evangelicals to be excused on grounds of "ignorance". I have too often acquainted reporters with the facts, only to find no trace of them in the final article or film segment. Once again, let it be noted that htere is an immense body of research refuting these efforts to denigrate religious people. It even turns out that religious people are rather superior in terms of their mental and physical health.
One True God, p254
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