[jennyp]

If all this sarcasm about "angels" is not hostility, I don't know what is.

Hostility towards misguided & sometimes downright dishonest creationist arguments, maybe. But hostility toward religious belief per se? No.

[bkepley]

Hostility towards misguided & sometimes downright dishonest creationist arguments, maybe. But hostility toward religious belief per se? No.

Really? Then why the angels? Seems to me to be directed not only at religion but even at a particular religon.

[trebb]

Hostility towards misguided & sometimes downright dishonest creationist arguments, maybe. But hostility toward religious belief per se? No.

If you actually stop and think about it, since the Bible says that God created the Heavens and the Earth, then created day and night, and got around to creating Man, then you just called everyone who believes in the Bible "dishonest" for arguing that God created us.

How is that not hostile to religious belief per se?

[steve-b]

Hostility towards misguided & sometimes downright dishonest creationist arguments, maybe. But hostility toward religious belief per se? No.

Precisely.

I am reminded of an old Kudzu comic strip in which Reverend Will B. Dunn announces that God told him to run for President. One of the assembled reporters asks him if he is seriously asserting that the Creator of the Universe, the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Alpha and the Omega, [etc for a few panels] specifically selected him. He answers "Yes" and the assembled reporters crack up laughing.

In the final panel, he thinks, "Ain't it awful how these secular humanists scoff at religion?"