re: #391 Hhar

Samlamantis, you were talking about science and atheism, and Sharmuta had a conversation with someone about Dawkins. I said was that he was an antireligious bigot (which is a pretty darn obvious fact), and you kinda went all kablooey (It’s balanced out! Atheists have never tried to coerce anyone! yer only taking about bigotry from one side! blah blah blah). You have the hots for the man or something?

Spiritual, intellectual and cultural bigotry is all over the place. You can find it on any side of any major social question. When a bigot, or a bigotry, is raised to social prominence, it is fair game to talk about it. Seems obvious.

I just hate seeing anyone, or any side, get gratuitously singled out for exclusive opprobrium. Like you said, there is plenty of bigotry to go around, on all sides; I was just ensuring that it got spread more evenly.

Perhaps insteasd of making that apparently confusingly abstract point, I should simply have mentioned James Dobson, Pat Robertson, or the late Jerry Falwell instead. They certainly qualify as socially prominent antiatheist bigots. As do a plethora of others I could mention.