This post, at Pharyngula concludes with one of the most lucid pleas I've seen:
if I can be comfortable with your belief that I'm going to burn in Hell, you should be able to cope with my belief that your god-bothering nonsense is a steaming heap o' BS.
The post is great, the comments are awesome (PZ, the blogger, defending himself against accusations that he's tossing out the baby with the bathwater):
And if the Bible is a baby, it is one codawful ugly fanged lizardoid monster baby, and I think we should not only throw it out with the bathwater, but maybe we ought to chop it up first and make sure the garbage disposal is powered up before we pull the plug and let its grisly bits swirl down the drain hole.Posted by carlosmorales at August 9, 2005 11:49 AM