[JeffAtlanta]

perhaps unmannered is a better description, since it implies more ignorance of proper behavior on their part and less offense

I can agree with this to an extent. I don't think that they were ignorant of proper behavior, it's just that they thought that they were serving a higher cause so the rudeness was justified.

From these threads, many have shown that purposely misrepresenting the facts or being purposely obtuse is ok as long as you're doing it for God. In almost every thread the same set of characters emerges as says "evolution is just a theory". Even after they are informed that the word "theory" doesn't mean a "guess" when used in a scientific context, they continue on.

[JohnnyZ]

I don't think that they were ignorant of proper behavior, it's just that they thought that they were serving a higher cause so the rudeness was justified.

Quite.

[DoctorMichael]

".......they thought that they were serving a higher cause so the rudeness was justified........."

Hmmmmmmm.........The Ends justify the Means?

Sounds positively Totalitarian to me.

This reminds me of the approving gaze of kindly Uncle Joe Stalin for his Anti-Evolutionist lapdog Lysenko: