Gee, I can buy all that, Steve - just not the throwing of ashes up and into the wind....

Don(Wyziwyg)T, I think the "militant atheists" described in the thread, are those who feel compelled to attack or convert those who believe in God. Otherwise, what would atheists have to be "militant" about?

And I do think such militants exist. Their tactic is the same used by militant right-wingers, argumentum ad absurdum - take the position held by others, oversimplify and redefine it to the point where it's ridiculous, and then condemn it.

Tolerance is all I ask for.

-Joe-