If you find the argument over whether Religion has done more harm than Science or vice versa diverting, you might want to head over to Natalie Solent's place: she's arguing with Professor Anthony Grayling.
UPDATE: Hey this is almost just like the good old days!
Moira Breen, far less of a frequent blogger of late than I wish she were, writes to Natalie on Prof. Grayling and the current game of Spot the Evil:
I fear that either Mr. Grayling is misleading your Martian readers, or I am misinformed on certain finer points of history.Posted by Dr. Frank at January 28, 2006 03:36 PM | TrackBackIf the Martians were encountering Earth history for the first time in his recent response to you, they might reasonably conclude from his phrasing that the malignant United States - after all chock-a-block with religious enthusiasm and Southern Baptist types from the get-go - stood in opposition to the triumphant "secular, democratic and humanist offspring of Enlightenment [that] refused to accept either fascism or communism, and defeated the former in seventeen years and the latter in seventy". Maybe the persistence of American religiosity is just a product of sheer testy resentment at having been on the wrong side of history in the last century?