2. I did not dismiss (“poo-poo”) Christian nitwits as a scant minority. What you are reading into my comments is coming from somewhere other than my comments. I said nothing about their numbers at all. I said there is no shortage of Christian scholarship on philosophical topics such as this, because it’s true. There is centuries worth, with some of the most decisive work taking place from the middle of the 20th century onward.

3. You think I should point out the poor arguments and illogical nonsense of both sides. Let me tell you why I don’t. My writing targets atheists for one rather simple reason: they make a HUGE stink about (i) being rational and logical, and (ii) that rationality and logic somehow lead inescapably to atheism (e.g., “If this book works as I intend,” Dawkins wrote, “religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down”). Such claims and attitude practically begs to be targeted. Moreover, I want my fellow Christian brothers and sisters to observe the incoherence and rational poverty of their atheist antagonists, especially the loud and vocal ones of the new atheists school.

You should point out the poor arguments. You should ridicule those who are illogical. And you should do it to both sides. Atheists aren’t standing at town hall meetings shouting that Obama is a Nazi while holstering a gun. The religious nuts are dangerous, especially when their faith is twisted to do evil things like flying planes into buildings. And calling their existence anecdotal IS hypocritical.

The primary argument that Atheists are hit with is that God transcends logic. You are a good person. You have good ideas and can formulate your thoughts logically and completely. But many of those on the side of Christianity cannot. As can’t many of the Atheists.

What’s more, there is a cultural bias against Atheism in many places throughout the USA. Loud, ignorant people accost Atheists for their beliefs constantly. My own place of employment has the fun habit of praying at meetings, as do the civil servants we contract with. Atheists will make the bad assumption that you too think they secretly believe in God and want to be harassed until they have no choice but to admit it. This is one of the most common perceptions Christians have that I ‘come out’ to. Indeed, I have to hide my agnosticism from many of the people I work with. My immediate co-workers are tolerant, but many of the non-technical people we deal with are very religious and don’t take kindly to me not bowing my head while they pray over a birthday cake.

You downplayed this. I don’t think you meant to. But you did.

Now, in a completely unrelated direction: I like the new blog template.

In reality, with the New Atheism sheeple not leaving any fallacy left unturned in their gratuitous invective against Christianity and making a raucous display of fundy wingnuts, I am going to put their own remarkable stupidity on as big a stage as I can here in my little corner of the internet. Every retarded argument I see them make, every fallacy I see them commit, I am going to make sure it is pointed out and publicized.

When I have Christians writing to me and wondering if these atheist attacks have merit, why wouldn’t I step up and point out how intellectually bankrupt these attacks are, exposing them as harmless puppies piddling on the floor in their exuberance?

So it is a little hypocritical for you to point out the nut-jobs on one side while downplaying the nit-whits on your own side. Both sides are crowded with crazy—to the point that I wonder how many people on either side really know what they believe.