Is "new Atheism" like "new Coke" ?

I have so many comments on Madeleine Bunting's article in The Guardian. It may take some time to cool down to the point that my fingers can emerge from my clenched fists and type them sensibly.

"The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it"

Hmmm.

Let's break that sentence down.

(1) "new atheist" - an atheist is an atheist.

(2) "loathe religion" - not all atheists loathe religion. Most just believe religion is incorrect and get on with the rest of their lives.

(3) " ... loathe ... too much to plausibly challenge ..." - I loathe child molesters. Does that mean I'm in no position to challenge them ?

And that's just the title of the piece. Maybe tomorrow I'll have calmed down enough to tear into the wrongheaded garbage between the headline and the byline.

You can't be prejudiced against gay people ...

... unless you're Muslim, Catholic or, to a lesser extent, Anglican. .

In fact I have slightly more respect for the extreme viewpoint than for the Church of England. Catholics fervently believe homosexuals are sinners - Anglicans say that they have "fallen short of the glory of God".

Both of them are reading Romans 3:23, just that the Anglicans have spin-doctored the three-letter "S" word out.

The prejudice is the same - just that Anglicans are a sight sneakier about it.

Meanwhile, we live in a democracy ... I get to grit teeth over some of our government's policies. I get to vote them out if they really hack me off, but I don't get a veto.

The Imams, Cardinals and Weasel-Word Archbishops don't get a veto either.

Someone should tell them.