Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> writes:

> On 7/22/2010 7:58 PM, Neeum Zawan wrote:
>> Their rhetoric isn't helpful. They often ask religious people to defend
>> principles that those religious people don't always believe in, for
>> example. They didn't bother establishing whether the person they're
>> speaking to fits their mental model of a religious person. He merely
>> does, because he's religious.
>>
> Problem with this is, while true, there is a fairly consistent "media"
> trend on what kind of stuff people believe, and that 99% of believers
> may not believe it doesn't help, if what they do believe is just as
> silly.
>
> In any case, you cannot address a position you are not aware of, so you
> address the ones you *are* aware of, which tend to be that presented by
> the loudest, most annoying, incoherent, but visible, people.

Which is my point: They (at least the loud atheists) tend not to know
much about religion.

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