re: #28 Ming
(Since I’ve left so many recent extreme atheist comments here, let me say that some of the people I care most about are religious, and also that Richard Dawkins is my favorite of the “new atheists”; he somehow manages to be incredibly courteous to other points of view, even when taking admittedly “non-mainstream” positions such as mine above. I may have missed something, but I’m not aware of any nasty sound-bites he’s made.)
I find Dawkins disrespectful of religious people. I’m on the look out for atheists who aren’t. I followed Hemant Mehta (‘the friendly atheist’) for quite a while, but recently dumped him when he said something mean about Muslims (I don’t remember what it was).
I’ll keep looking.