The title was a provocation. It was deliberately insulting. Dawkins is a jerk. Shaw is a jerk. When it comes to this subject at least, Musket too. Militant Atheists are jerks.

It follows a logic similar to, Christians are mean so lets be mean, Christians are bigoted so lets give them some of their own medicine! Christians are dogmatic, so lets be unwavering in our accusations of that.

It is cruel, small minded and divisive, and the media battles it generates are entertaining and sell books.