re: #3 CuriousLurker

Not denying that there’s plenty of that going around, but I don’t think that’s the tone of this particular piece.

Maybe the closest thing is the quote “Some groups seem to like their flocks ignorant so that pastors’ interpretations of God’s edicts are not questioned. Other groups prize scholarship and achieve more in their lives here on Earth.” But those “other groups” also include Unitarians and Reform Jews.

The pushback here is more against examples like: “Yet in a recent study atheists were believed to be no more trustworthy than rapists.”