The Assumption of Hatred

With my author Twitter account, I follow actor Adam Baldwin, and he was having a conversation with a fellow, Paul Doreika, about atheism and its political agenda. Mr. Baldwin indicated that he thought that some atheists are both evangelical (zealously intending to spread their belief – or lack thereof, as the case may be) and hateful, and Mr. Doreika tweeted a response, which I found to capture perfectly the very position of religious folk everywhere.

That response was, “Why do so MANY people...