Micro: My argument (at the end) had far less to do with spirituality and far more to do with ignorance, bigotry and close-mindedness.

Brian represents the worst in the pseudo-intellectualism you find in most contemporary Leftists: Shoddy reasoning, lack of critical analysis, intellectual dishonesty and a marked unwillingness to accept any viewpoints that don’t correspond to his own, especially as it relates to Christianity (a religion, apparently, peopled by small-minded bigots much like Brian himself).

As a Catholic, especially one educated by those renegade Jesuits, I was always very conscious of both the tendentious and enlightened aspects of the Mother Church. I was also very aware of the dangers of putting the blinkers on and not asking the “necessary” questions.

To argue, stupidly, as Brian does, that Faith and Science MUST be at odds, is to blindly miss the two most important and uplifting aspects of being human: The strength of Reason and the power of Hope (which is highly ironic for an Obama supporter).