Is everybody equal in atheism?

[Cyberman]

Fair enough, and it's never suited me to play the martyr, but let's just clarify something here. "Vinny" let me know that he'd paid my poor little blog a visit by way of the none-too-subtle clue of quoting from my tagline "Fighting the religion virus, one rant at a time". There was only one place from which he could have got that phrase, unless someone else had also thought of it and put it on a t-shirt or something; however in the context of this thread it was a clear message that he'd checked out my blog. No big deal, it's what it's there for and I've been hoping to generate some traffic anyway as all bloggers do.

However, on the About Me page, which I christened the 'Mission' Statement, after a long dissertation about why I chose the name, there is an addended paragraph intended to explain my choice of colour scheme both there and on my Youtube channel of the same name. My logo for both places is a photo of Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface, but Photoshopped to give him a bright green suit. As I explain in the paragraph:

(Design note: I originally added the green tint to Buzz Aldrin’s photo for my YouTube channel around November 2009, when it was used to show support for an anti-torture campaign. Since the sudden and devastating loss of my beloved fiancée six months later, I chose to adopt it as the principal colour scheme for this blog in her memory: green was her favourite colour.)

Unless he'd been reading back through nearly three thousand posts, this was the only place he could have got the information about my fiancée. If he'd been genuinely interested and concerned he could have PMed me, as so many of you have done already, instead of playing the EternallyAlive card. (Min will know what I mean by this and can verify. Back on the Connecticut Valley Atheists there used to be a fundy known as EternallyAlive who, when things got heated in a particular discussion, lashed out at one member who'd had an abortion something along the lines of "So, do you still think of those kids you had killed?") Plus his choice of wording went beyond an honest query. It even went beyond Father Ted 's Father Dougal making such conversation as "So I hear your babysitter got pregnant?" or saying to a radical feminist singer (after Ted had mentioned how it's nice to have a female touch about the place) "Ted tells me you've been touching him!" No, this had knives, and the knives had guns. This was intended to wound.

I do accept that an apology has been issued, apart from the snark about sulking. I still reserve the right keep him on ignore. I repeat I have no desire to play the martyr nor drag the drama out to EastEnders proportions, but this went way deeper than just, say, calling me a cunt or something. I would like some acknowledgement of this, in a PM if it will help.

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Edited to correct punctuation-related issues.