Though I haven’t been a newspaper editor for more than a year, I still read newspapers like crazy. Whenever I go out of town, for example, I always pick up as many different daily and weekly papers as I can in the cities and towns that I visit. You never know when you’ll find something really, really good. And Jack Hunter’s column, “Separating Church from Hate,” in the December 24 issue of the Charleston City Paper was really, really good.
An excerpt:
It seems for every pushy Bible-thumper there is always some Christophobic twit to match, whose obnoxious enthusiasm for his unbelief knows no bounds. The activist atheist who’s upset that he’s surrounded by Christians deserves to be accommodated about as much as the religious fundamentalist who’s upset he’s surrounded by heathens.
Both unquestionably have a right to their own opinion, but should also have the judgment to temper their personal beliefs with common sense and good manners.
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