Hilarious comment on a Guardian Unlimited blog under an article about Dawkins and Hitchens and militant atheism:
let’s face it a lot of people with strong atheist beliefs may well be right, but they’re also irredeemably smug, packed-lunch eating, engineering faculty, cleverness in smelly socks, what’s your favourite programming language?, property ladder climbing, in the kitchen talking about cars at parties, materialistic, wet blanketed, cold showered, blinkered, souless, ironic wank mag reading,literalist, pompous, equity-obsessed, wearing loud coloured anoraks on buses, crap bantering, tedious jokes, caring whether they win at trivial pursuit, fact fetish, not half as smart as they think they are, declaiming with absolute certainty passages from the latest Dawkins, unjoyous, status-chasing (shot of baby smiling in back seat), life-planned, married kids and house by 30, quarterly objectives, unpoetic, smarmy, sneering at anything they don’t understand, lifestyle programme enjoying, we could buy some property in Romania, laminate floors and luxury bathroom, still into Indie music (Snow Patrol and Coldplay), urban lifestyle choices, always argue with the winners, self-conceited, unimaginative, reality-is-the-way-they-think-it-is bastards who we shouldn’t believe entirely.
Give me a romantic catholic any day. I like hopeless cases.
