Excellent and most appropriate link, thanks.
I've been around such people as these my entire life, but it still astounds me that they can claim to be rational, reasoning human beings. They use the same nonsensical arguments time and again and continually argue from ignorance, envy, and hate.
It's as if they are fighting the incoming tide by waving their bible at it, then claiming victory as the tide eventually goes out, singing "La Marseillaise" as they slink back into their pits, forgetting that it will be back again tomorrow. I suspect the Egyptian priests made the same kind of noises every year when the Nile started to flood. Frankly, I can't see the difference.
When you walk down a street and a dog barks at you and you continue on, the dog knows he chased you away. That's the power of ritual.