"Wacko, if I 'd really wanted to equate the two I would have said "one is as bad as the other" or words to that effect"


Steve if you had up to this point shown any intention to communicate with your words, I might believe you.

I don't. You were not trying to make a point. You were trying to change the subject. This thread was started because I recognized a little bit of you and Musket in de Waals observations of Atheist dogmatists. You have proven that point far far beyond what I could have imagined at the time. You are all tactics and no thought. When the lack of thought behind your dogma is demonstrated you bring up more dogma. You (as a group) have repeated tried to prod me into defending everything from the Crusades to practices in east Africa that have a lot more to do with ancient superstitions (I mean the actual word rather than the Dawkins definition) than religion. (Try finding if a man's penis touches a clit it will burn like fire in any Abrahamic text.)   Just because some religious person committed some atrocity somewhere else does not mean your neighbors are not a hell of a lot more qualified than you and Dawkins to decide how to raise their kids.   

You are an atheist dogmatist. Period.