I'm not good at jokes, but as you haven't rated it or commented on it, I'll walk into your cleverly laid trap:

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=42306

Of course, the words 'opinion' and 'fact' are entirely interchangeable. I don't get why he doesn't get that.

Rhetoric be damned. You can verify for yourself the roundness of the earth.

True, but how many people have actually done so?

*fart*

Well played, Mord!

It was more than you deserved

And yet, you did it! I feel so honored.

It's so arrogant and wrong to not believe in God and treat it as an unevidenced human superstition. People who do so come across as douches who see themselves as demi-gods.

Oh, and horoscopes, fairies and psychics are all obvious frauds. It's ridiculous how people can't pick up on that. It's almost like they apply different standards to the superstitions they are culturally raised to be favorable toward. Trying to pretend that there's a middle ground is just naive. Why can't they see The Truth?

I wrote that comment when I was still in my deconversion phase, and I no longer see him as a douche-bag, but as a guy who simply has no time to deal with out-and-out stupidity. You're right, there is no middle ground, but to take an aggressive stance toward the obnoxiously religious only makes them dig in their heels deeper and causes their followers to think "why should I listen to what this douche has to say"? Once you're completely deconverted, you do see that Dawkins is not a douche-bag, and how amazingly passive-aggressive the religious can truly be.