I don't think most of them can helps themselves, like moths drawn to a flame. It's like their frontal lobes shut down when they hear the word 'atheist.' I find that to keep my sanity, I have to grow a thick skin towards their idiocy, but I probably would have ended up in jail in that situation also.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
