What Jake is saying is that he won't find anything to compare with religion but a ridiculous game. If you say a church or other religious group must not have more status or political clout than a NGO or trade union or whatever organisations participate in the political sphere and roughly represent as many people, that's perfectly okay with me (and anything else would be religious privilege). It is not what I get to hear here on ET, because this wouldn't ridicule religion, and it wouldn't hurt. Any idea why it is a tad difficult for me to reply dispassionately to all this?