Something Spiritual This Way Comes

With the advent of the internet came the advent of discussion boards. And in the early 2000s, few subjects were as likely to end up locked by moderators as whether or not God was, in fact, dead. 

On one side were the self-styled rationalists—your PZ Myerses, your Bill Mahers—arguing that religion was not just illogical, but outright deleterious. On the other, as popular memes had it, was “Jesusland,” arguing for things unseen, accused of burgeoning “theocracy” even as it unsuccessfully tried to “teach the controversy” over evolution in public school classrooms.