The liberals are every bit as bigoted as the fascists.


Of course. Forty odd years ago, I spent a year as a post-grad student in University College Cork. The Chemistry Department had just appointed two new professors. For the first time in the College's history, neither was a Cork graduate. One (my research supervisor) was a conservative Catholic from Northern Ireland; the other was an English atheist - "liberal about everything except other people's religion", as I described him at the time. In many ways an intelligent, rational scientist with an inherent courtesy in his dealings with others, he simply had no idea what went on in the heads of those of a religious persuasion. You can imagine how he got on in conservative, Catholic Cork at the time...

Several of our regular disputants remind me of him - without the courtesy.

Regards