To set the record straight a bit:

Jack was the only one centering on teaching of Christianity"?    Nice fancy footwork, but no cigar. The target of the illustrious Mr. Shaw was primarily Christianity--as anyone who reads the entire thread can see. And he was the one who made the link to genital mutilation.   

I wonder if our stalwart atheists have any idea how foolish they sound.   

Perhaps they have not even noticed that their intrepid captain, Mr. Shaw, has jumped overboard and is no longer defending the untenable position he asserted.   While the rest (often from the UK, which I don't think is exactly in the grip of a Christian Taliban) have insisted on nailing their colors to a ship sinking before they boarded, and on fighting to the death (attacking religion) as the ship continues to submerge.

Your ship is not only sunk but has quite a few barnacles growing on it.

Your attitude reminds me of those dear dead days of yore when Teribus of blessed memory repeated for about 500 posts that the GWB administration did not carry out a propaganda campaign to convince the US public to back the Iraq war they had planned.

Your position is just as sensible as his was. (Or that of the sainted Rev. Falwell). And no more. Skepticm makes eminent sense.   Atheism makes as much sense as fundamentalism.

Just as surely as any fundamentalist preacher, you have spiritualized your hysteria.

But I'll have to say it is such a comfort to know that the US is not the only nation graced with half-baked zealots.