There's a lively discussion going on over at Harry's Place following
this post from David T about attacks on religious belief.
[T]o take a position of absolute condemnation in relation to any mainstream religious ideology is rarely anything other than disproportionate and phobic.
I think he's right. And there's a fine example of a disproportionate and phobic response in the
comments - one commenter recommends the desecration of religious books as a kind of shock therapy for believers, on the grounds that:
Most religion is a form of mental illness, and the sooner that here and now, in the 21st century, that the mental illness corcerned is wiped out or cured, the better humankind will be.
Funny really, that's kind of like the way some people feel about socialism.
