...victims of sexual exploitation by clergy often also suffer loss of faith...

Every cloud has a silver lining.

they are now doing what Christianity used to do in the Middle Ages, in much more dangerous circumstances because now there are much more terrible weapons than the Crusaders, for example, ever had.

This is quite right, of course, but, as I was reading it, the thought occurred to me the the absence of nuclear weapons in the 11th century did not prevent the crusaders from going nuclear on the people of Jerusalem when they invaded that city. They slaughtered the entire population, numbering tens of thousands. Bloody crusaders.

The saying is, actually, 'Dead as a dodo'.

And I dispute that dinosaurs are frequently cited as the ultimate exemplars of failure.

Who thumbs their nose at dinosaurs, and laughs derisively at their present-day absence? Nobody. That never happens.

I could hear it better when I set my computer's audio manager to 'Rock'.

One million miles per hour relative to what?

Edit: I see from Wikipedia that it is relative to the cosmic background radiation (which I congratulate myself on having sort of guessed).

Edit 2: Oh wait. The article says that the flow dates back to the first fraction of a second. But the origin of the cosmic background radiation is much more recent than that. So I'm still in baffled.