Geisert and Futrell's designation of those who hold a naturalistic worldview as "brights" implies that everyone else is a "dim." Such sneering arrogance rivals the most smugly self-righteous evangelist, cardinal or mullah.
"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
American social philosopherBefore pushing atheism as a panacea for the world's fanaticism, The New Atheists should remember that some of the worst violators of human rights in history were the atheistic regimes of the French Revolution's Terror, Lenin and Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's China.
Grant DeyoeEl Segundo, California
