Look out! Dark Ages approaching!

Has anyone else noticed a rise in the fervor of the so-called "Christian" religion of late?
Maybe I am just more aware of their vitriolic rhetoric.  It just seems to me that, at least the ones who are speaking out in public, seem to be doing so out of both sides of their mouths.  


The anti-Choice movement is a prime example.  It appears that the majority of those who oppose the right of a woman to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy, profess to be "christian".  Yet, those same folks who so vehemently defend the "life" of the unborn, could care less about that same life once it IS born.  And to take it one step further, many of those same anti-choice folks, are the same folks who believe in the taking of a life if it means furthering their cause or in the case of the death penalty.  Just exactly how does that work?
How does your "Church" square that for you?  


My moral compass doesn't work that way.


There is going to come a time, if we are not careful and this is not put in check, where the "Church" will become the dominant voice in our society again.  Only this time, I fear it will be even worse than in victorian times, and we will indeed be headed for another dark age.  An age where everything you do, say and think will be dictated by the "Church".  those who do not believe will be labeled as heretics and instead of burned at the stake, murdered for their beliefs.  


Sound familiar?


All innovation will cease and creativity will come to a standstill.  Artists will seek out enclaves and go underground as will scientists to try and survive the onslaught of mis-informed sent to do them harm in the name of their god.  


Sounds like devolution to me.  Those who do manage to survive the wrath of the "Church" and outlast the darkness, will be the ones who bring this society into an understanding of how our life exists and has existed and how much "help" we have had from outside of our own world to do so.  A new language will be born to facilitate the description of this intervention from beings from off-world places, and we will come to see ourselves as the true minutiae in the cosmos we really are.  


This will hopefully set us forward on the path of evolution without the cloud of religion and all it's trappings and fear-mongering to hold us back.