""They have every right to assert that they do not believe. But they have no right to mock those who don't agree with them.""

It always intrigues me, that the religious (as opposed to the faithful who believe in a deity) are so exercised by their need to rebut the opinions of non believers.

Just how does anybody else's opinion diminish their status, and why should they give a tuppeny fuck what Steve, Ian, or for that matter Dawkins thinks of them?

The followers of just about every other religion on earth think pretty much the same as Steve about Christianity, and Christians largely have the same view as Steve about those others. But because they are religious their opinions are largely ignored, causing no uproar at all.

But just let anybody who doesn't believe in religion at all post an opinion and all hell breaks loose, in a concerted effort to prove that he belongs to some equal but opposite grouping.

NEWSFLASH: He doesn't, and neither do I. We have our independently arrived at opinions, he not believing in a Deity and I believing in one. What we share is non belief in the pontifications of groups of men purveying a controlling agenda.

Sorry about that, but for obvious reasons it isn't a religion!

Don T.