"Brooklyn Prof in Godless Shocker"

From The Nation, online.

[Philboid Studge]

"I have been attacked recently in the New York newspapers," he wrote. "We laugh at our critics. We will behold with joy their silly tantrums."

I notice Prof. Shortell called religious believers "moral retards." If I weren't such a mensch, I would say Shortell's epithet does a disservice to retards everywhere.

I think someone was “poisoning the well” when defining atheism.