As a secular humanist who is sufficiently "tolerant" of religion to actually belong to a church so I can support the work it does in the community, thus maximizing my own efforts, I would say that anyone who equates religious people with those who believe in "fairly tales" hasn't a clue as to what religion is all about. This, I feel, is the sort of unthinking intolerance that feeds the kind of decisiveness that is further weakening the already fractured progressive movement in this country and leaving us all vulnerable to a total take-over by the most power-hungry fundamentalist faction of those people they scoff at.   

Don Firth