Very true and a good point. I don't fault people's belief
   systems; I believe what I want to believe, and I respect other's
   the right to believe whatever they want to believe.
   Gather peacefully? Sure.
   Complain online from your religious perspective? Go ahead.
   Express your opinions in arenas where that's appropriate? Sure.
   I don't have a problem with Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on
   doors. They can knock; and I can ignore them, or dance around in
   a tutu and freak them out if I like, or I can invite them in for
   a cup of coffee and a chit chat about religion if I want to.
   I don't expect everybody to believe like me or think like me,
   and I respect other people's rights in this manner.
   But then... there's things involving public policy.
   And... that's where things get tricky.

   If you have some knowledge of religious groups that interfere in
   politics, it's actually a VERY small number of groups.

   The majority of religious groups *don't* get involved in
   politics, at least not in Western countries.

   They may go in as individuals, be personally inspired by their
   belief system, yet the governmental system that's in place must
   take precedence and thankfully, it MOSTLY does, although there
   are always some exceptions that slip through.

   But calling for revolution and what amounts to government
   overthrow by a limited group of people? Never a safe thing.
   Secular groups do it as well. I hear calls that Science should
   take over government. No, it shouldn't. Science should do
   science things and ADVISE but not control. Religions should do
   religious things and ADVISE (to get a sense of the 'pulse of the
   nation' as it were), but not control.

   Yet these are my opinions. Maybe I'm wrong. Thankfully, nobody
   put me in charge, so I can safely express my thoughts here in an
   appropriate forum.