"...lumping people together"

Bingo.

My heart truly bleeds for Mudcat atheists if they feel I am lumping people together.

Now when will they realize that this is exactly how quite a few Mudcat atheists' posts read when they discuss Christians?   There is no attempt to look for shades of gray.

If all Mudcat atheists refrain from the black/white approach, smearing all Christians with the deeds of a crackpot few, I will also stop the Manichean style.

And it is obvious to anybody who reads that many Mudcat atheists have in fact been doing this.

So, do we have a deal?

(And not just on this thread--which now is in fact just the ghost of a dead horse.)