But I would agree with you that rationalism and scepticism seem to be
on the retreat. Sometimes, when looking at courts wanting to post the
ten commandments in their buildings or states demanding teaching
evolution as a possibility only along with "creationism", it sure
seems as if Enlightenment never happened.

The whole country seems to be slipping back into the dark ages; it really is
bewildering. I would have thought most of the barbaric mindset had died off
by now.