Happy New Year, Frank--

I agree with you (must be the end of the world!) on your choice of Ehrman, at least as a Christian religious author/teacher/lecturer. He is also a heck of a nice person, having answered an e-correspondence from me whilst he was on vacation.

As atheism is now (legally) considered a religion, I think think that the recently deceased Christopher Hitchens' polemic against religion gave food for thought. Although I have not read the book, I feel he did not fare well in his defense of his thesis on the several talk shows on which I heard him discuss the work.