People like that do not help. Secularists attacking religious people are no different than religious people attacking the non-religious. Not much different than Muslims saying that all Christians and Jews are infidels..

Yes, but....Muslims u>do say that all Christians and Jews are infidels, and Christians u>do say that all Muslims and Jews are infidels, and Jews u>do say that all Christians and Muslims are infidels....in each case, some do, anyway.

Let's face it. If there were a hundred or so devout, born-again Christians in the country, and everyone else was atheist or agnostic, those hundred would all be shut up in laughing academys. They get taken seriously because there are so many of them.

I agree with The Mysterious Stranger's basic point (or the Mysterious Strangers' - we have no way of knowing if all the "guests" on this thread are the same person). But I don't know what we can do about it except hope that the fanatical Christians, fanatical Muslims, and fanatical Jews will concentrate on killing each other and leave the rest of us alone. Not likely.

Peter.