Watching John McLaughlin interview Robert William Merry, I realized that McLaughlin is starting to get very edgy and controversial. The subject of the discussion was the Clash of Civilizations, and McLaughlin maintained that it is not Islamic radicals that are the problem, but Islam itself.
Friday, McLaughlin did a big section on the problems that religion presents in democracy, and that theocracy will always be a problem for democracy, since they are essentially and irrevocably opposed.
The synthesis is this, I think, and I welcome evidence-based debate on the concept:
The current spate of books on the evils of religion presage a worldwide recognition that religion must be told, firmly and constantly, that it is private belief, not public belief. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Mormonism must recognize that government cannot be done by clerical decree, but by the informed consent of the governed, and that religion is not information.