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I'm not qualified to answer that. I'm only barely qualified to say what I said. The only reason I have any religious schooling at all is out of convenience--namely, it was important to my husband (because it was VERY important to my husband's mother), and when tempered with common sense and decency I believe it's a reasonable moral structure in which to raise children.
Which is why it bugs me when someone takes a wacky passage out of Deuteronomy and puts it forth as a fundamental tenet of Christianity. I used to be more than a little biased against religion, and it was a bit of a wake-up call when I did finally get a basic overview and understood how so many of those passages could still be in there.
It's just a question of low-level education--I think people would be a lot less intolerant on both sides if everyone had a simple understanding of exactly what it was everyone believed in the first place. I'm a fan of educating oneself.
Incidentally, who are the 1.5% you mention? Are you talking about the apocrypha? Either way, I certainly don't think that the majority should be tyrannical, or that religion should have ANYTHING to do with our government. Please don't assume that just because I believe in learning a little of everything that I BELIEVE everything I read. But I do believe that if a religion gives something a name, then that is what that thing is called for them. Not that it is TRUE, just that that is what's it's called. I'm not sure which point you were making because I don't know who the 1.5% are.
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