It's not what you say...

[mcgazz]

...but it should be.

I like this:
"Intellectually, the debate between religion and secularism is an arid one; there’s barely a single point made by Ditchkins [Dawkins & Hitchens] or their interlocuters that wasn’t made 80 years ago by Bertrand Russell and his opponents. So why is the mass debate - the mots juste - so lively? It’s because what’s at

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[mcgazz]

I hear what you're saying, but I think the writer is talking more about the "debate" that occurs (aided massively by the internet, it has to be said) when atheist fundies declare "God doesn't exist" over and over again with the self-satisfied air of a dog that's just emptied his bowels. Todays secularists haven't got past the "OMG there's no God!" phase that you're supposed to go through when you're 13

[mcgazz]

You're right, Dawkers just grinds my gears ;-)
I covered that in more detail a while back: http://mcgazz.livejournal.com/160287.html

I think the problem with Militant Atheism is that, by being as fanatical about Not God as the other lot are about God, they:
(a) Have no real effect on the Creationist fruitloops
(b) Put mildly atheist or agnostic people off.