Thousands of astrologists, witches and other religious experts are hiding today, as 666 is already yesterday and we are all still here. Prejudice, mysticism, secret signs & codes etc will of course gradually re-surface - next year is the 777, then 888 and so on. Witness also the success of the Da Vinci Code feature film, which borders between the banal and the amusing.

More important, however is when backwardness and irrationality, masking under religion, directly impact on the lifes of millions: Already 40 MILLION people have contracted AIDS, and 25 MILLION have already died. So what can one say of those religious leaders who keep on preaching against the use of condoms in the developing world on 'moral grounds' and those neo-cons who support them by banning funding to birth control charities? Well, one can say that they are morally responsible for the deaths of millions from AIDS, and that they can, and I bet will, be successfully sued by some clever lawyer out there. Any takers?