Rude Behavior Redux

What follows is an old post from my original website, back in 2005.  I'm reposting it because of a revisitation.  Yesterday I had a knock on the door and there were a couple of people from some small church, spreading the good news.

Now, there is irony here, because I've just started reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.  I didn't read it when it first came out because it received so much attention and there was an enormous quantity of posturing, both pro and con, regarding it, that I...