re: #307 Cato the Elder

Dawkins is both by his own choice and popular acclaim one of the current spokesmen for atheism. I see nothing “dishonest” in taking him and his cheering section at their word.

Yeah, but just like highlighting Hitchens’s comments about religion, it isn’t always the loudest spokespeople, or the ones with the most attention, who are most representative. (Cf. the points about Robertson, or even taking Fred Phelps as indicative of all of Christianity).