Rationality & Christianity: Mutually Exclusive?

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I miss Christopher Hitchens - a genuinely brilliant man who made absolutely no pretensions to "Goodness" and openly despised God.

He was a man you could respect for his conviction.

I miss him too. Seems these days that too few people are willing to openly criticise religions either out of fear of violent reprisal or pressure to be overly politicaly correct.

A lot of athiest community has gone to shit over the last few years. When the most recent crop of college grown liberals started gaining authority they began stigmatising everyone who had world views they didn't like.

It's got to the point where athiests are being declared pariahs for a lack of idealogical purity. Don't adheire to the unrelated social values of the group leaders and you're out. Now athiesm's become known less for rational debate and more for youtube slap fights.