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Fox News\u2019 "War on Christmas" is already in full swing, as Bill O\u2019Reilly wasted no time jumping into battle this year to defend the holiday from the great secular menace. However, it looks like Bill might be able to leave the trenches a little early this year; according to a new Pew survey, just over 70 percent of Americans believe that Jesus was literally birthed from the womb of a virgin (a staggering percentage considering that only one third of Americans report interpreting the Bible as the literal word of god). The question is why are conservative Christians so afraid of losing a fight that in so many ways they\u2019ve already won?\n\xa0\nThis week on\xa0Point of Inquiry, former Evangelical fundamentalist Frank\xa0Schaeffer\xa0joins us to bring first-hand insight into the irrational fear within fundamentalism, and what it says about their belief system.\xa0Schaeffer\xa0grew up in a strict Evangelical household in which he was expected to\xa0follow in the footsteps of his father, Francis August Schaeffer, a founder of what we know today as the Religious Right. Instead, he came to reject the beliefs of his father, but still maintains a place for \u201cthe divine.\u201d He has sense spent his life talking about his journey away from the church and has written extensively about belief and religion as a\xa0New York Times\xa0bestselling author.