just because someone quotes from the(ir) scriptures. It is ok to invoke that which moves you the most, if indeed it does -- it need not necessarily be perceived to be threatening -- and I speak as a part of a miniscule minority in this country: agnostic, and a Hindu by birth.

The problem comes from people who use religion as a wedge to separate those that believe (in their own version of God) and those that dont. As with obscenity, it is quite easy to see who is being sincere and who isn't: watch if there is follow-through. How many of the right wing nut jobs actually (a) attend church or (b) do any good deeds, in a real and meaningful fashion?

So, the problem is not in the invoking; it is the motivation behind it. And I am saying this fully conscious of the subjectivity of evaluation and the slippery slope problem...