Reply #5: There are a number of contributing factors

[Warpy]

First and foremost, the millennium came and went and Jesus didn't show up. Again. Millennium fever has just about run its course and the country will begin to convalesce.

Second, all the men at the top are getting on in years. Falwell dropped dead of a gluttony induced coronary. The rest are mostly in their 70s and early 80s. Moon hasn't been crowned master of the universe in many months and may be either dead or incapacitated, the whole thing being covered up by the family to maintain the empire (god can't die, you know).

Third, ordinary people along the secular continuum, believers or not, are getting sick to death of sanctimonious bullying and are showing it. The Jesus fashion and aint we great is going the way of Britney inspired clothing for suburban matrons and low carb diets to fit into it.

I don't expect the zealots to go quickly or quietly, but it seems clear now that they will go. We won't even need a Rapture to get rid of them.

Good riddance.