http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...ed_cracker.php

No more pandering to religious people. This is the breaking point. I really thought the 1st world countries were beyond this, that some form of common sense had been instilled in us. Apparently I was wrong.

I know there are a lot of extremely intelligent religious people, and there are a lot more extremely stupid religious people. Either or, the fact remains: Faith is a disease and needs to be ended (obviously by reason, logic, and talking with religious people, not by violence, although Bill Donahue really needs to kick the bucket).

This may sound extreme and I think 99% of the people here will think this article is ridiculous as well, but let's think about it:

Is an invisible sky-daddy who we talk to telepathically and controls every bit of human destiny less ridiculous that transubstantiation?

Is a man/god being sent down to heaven to die for the sins we inherited from 2 supposed beings at the beginning of time more rational than Eucharistic desecration?

Is a loving, perfect god who let's 4/5th's of the world's population burn in a lake of fire for not giving them sufficient evidence for his existence and/or putting them in a geographic location that caused them to be raised in the wrong religion any less insane than actually thinking a cracker turns into the flesh of a god/human?

I used to think Hitchens and Dawkins could come down kind of hard on the religious, but they aren't coming down hard enough. This medieval stupidity needs to end.

(Okay, so it's melodramatic, but I feel exactly like PZ Myers, i.e. beyond words irritated).