re: #395 Salamantis

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.

I don’t find that a confusing abstract point in the least. I’m sorry that you do. But if your concern is as you state, I support your enthusiasm. In the future, whenever anyone mentions how and agenda driven the Discovery Institute is, I of course expect you to talk about the militant anti-religiosity of Andrew Coyne, and the bigotry of Dawkins. Because, of course, within the wold of science (as you noted) there is a far higher proportion of people who identify themselves as atheists than as theists, and proportionality is important, and it is important to address both sides of the story simultaneously and equally.

But that isn’t really what you meant, is it? No it isn’t.