Religious promotion of irrationalism

I guess that if you believe that Jesus was born of a virgin, was raised from the dead - and could both walk on the water and raise the dead - that it is not completely incomprehensible that you might not believe the science of climate change or the Darwinian theory of evolution.  The more extreme forms of Christianity can be a socially acceptible form of madness.  Moderate Christians who derive moral values from the New Testament without a bizarre belief in the supernatural comprise an influential component of our culture that counteracts excess and – wrong though they are – deserve some limited respect.