My dear, I believe it is real. My sister and her husband were stationed in Florida when he was in the Navy, and she told me that there were Baptist missionaries who would come around visiting the neighborhoods, handing out tracts, and they would begin their proselytizing by asking, "Have you accepted Christ as your personal savior?" and if you said no, they would say, "Did you know you're going to hell?"

My own beliefs are different from most of my family. But my sister is a Christian, and believes in the whole thing. My older brother was a Church of God minister who had to retire when his health got too bad for him to continue. My younger brother is a Church of God minister. You don't get more fundamental than that. But none of them would say such a thing to anyone. They will witness to their faith and talk to anyone who wants to talk about it, but I can't see any of them saying such a stupid, ignorant, hate-promoting thing as that.

I laugh at them, but I don't underestimate them. They'd have all of us living under their oppressive rule if they could manage it.