If Americans are going to pass laws that require people to do things they’d rather not, let me suggest a law that requires opinion makers in big cities to spend a couple of years in small towns. We’re all one country, but the differences between our boonies and our metropolises go far beyond scale.
But damn it, it isn’t a perfect world. Some of those shopkeepers have minds as broad as cowpaths. Some of those characters coming through the door can’t be suspected of anything but being crosswise with Leviticus.
The problem is that religious faith isn’t contingent on the evidence in front of it. Though repudiated in many eyes by those “advances of science and knowledge,” the “ancient texts” are still held in high regard by Christians who believe them to be inspired or written by God. It’s probably not a winning strategy to try to cure Christians who read the Bible literally by shaming them.
