Quote Originally Posted by Goofball
To hear them talk, one would think that all of the mainstream media and anyone who has attained any higher education believes that there can be no nobler pastime than casting aspersions upon the devout of the world.
It isn't the most noble thing to do? I suppose I should extract the beam first before going for anothers splinter.

I think some people need to go to a few science conferences and see how much sledging, aspersions, cutting down, sarcasm etc all in the name of the higher calling of science... scientists are pretty ruthless with each other, and at least in that niche environment of intellectual gladiators the winner tends to walk off with the prize money... well next years grants and tenure. ... while with cutting down religion there is not much to gain in a monetary sense.