Regardless, what bearing does it have on the right to express his views on religion when specifically asked? See, it's not required to follow anyone blindly regardless of their opinion. Personally, I think it was an unfortunate and insensitive thing to say, especially considering his own battle with bipolar disorder, as long as he was represented accurately. There is nothing in the atheist contract to say that I must agree wholecloth with everything he or any other prominent atheist says or believes. So I'm left wondering why you would deflect to it?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
