Shuggy, that's marvellous and just about nails it!
Let's mail it out to every fundamentalist in the world!
Actually, I was a VERY devout little catholic up until ages 16 or 17 (served as an acolyte in the convent down my parent's street for many years), and believed in just about everything spooky and paranormal for a few years after that. Then, one day, a professor at my college organized a debate between skeptics and several mediums and faith healers, where the scientists all but wiped the floor with the paranormal people, and I was instantly cured. I have become increasingly convinced that organized religion is one of the most consistent sources of hatred, intolerance and war throughout human history, and that peace will probably be impossible as long as it exists. Well, just take a glance at the Middle East today...
And now that Mr. Bush, against the will of a democratic majority, has vetoed federal funding for stem cell research, theocratic dictatorship shows its undisguised face in the US, too. VERY worrying.