It is amazing that, after all we have been
through with Galileo, Darwin, Freud and
fundamentalism, von Däniken should still speak of a scientific -
religious conspiracy to defend the literal authority of the Bible.
The threat to this idea of secularism arises form
religious fundamentalism which is afraid of insecurity
through change in traditional
religious dogmas, ritual practices of purity and impurity in social laws; the threat also comes from communalism which seeks political power for one's
religious community or in the case of Hindutva wants to establish a Hindu state.