no one's dictating to you Raggy. Its Jim's opinion - that's all.

he needs a set of beliefs to operate the way he does. we need a set of beliefs to exist in our domain.

he may think, he's discovered an absolute truth. that's up to him.

it doesn't interfere with us, well not all that much = though i suppose grabbing the tags of intellectual respectability does impact slightly. still its not like we live in Iran where the orthodoxies are asserted by a bloke with a bloody big sword.