Reply #22: For many people who don't believe

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in the Christian god, Dawkins and others like him are like candles in the dark heralding an alternate belief system against the radical religious right. While I know, and hope most rational people know, that the radical religious right is a lot smaller than it pretends to be, they are in everyone's face and make themselves look like the favored side.

Until recently, those of us who prefer to keep our beliefs to ourselves, and whether we are atheistic or agnostic, did not have anyone to serve our cause celebre; now, at least, there are some who are not afraid to say that they don't believe in the Christian god, and it's about time that we are given some equal time!

While some of our "heroes" are anything but perfect, I would say that they are at LEAST as perfect as the assholes on the religious right who make the world believe that they are more perfect than others.