Hahaha Stercus, thanks for the compliment. But one doesn't have to be "very clever" to understand a writer's point; it requires only comprehension. Pray tell why one needs "misplaced confidence" to "exhort anybody to stop defending the indefensible". You are trying desperately to use sophistry to beat me down, but you're wasting your time. You are clearly a religion apologist, regardless of whether you were defending anything specific. Semantics, old boy! 

Further, I think it's long overdue that DM use its position to denigrate that which so obviously needs denigrating, hence my thank you to Ivo in a separate comment. You, with your apparent intellect -- I can't speak for your intelligence -- should know full well that one can't avoid pointing out the silliness of religion in general, when one is criticising an important destructive aspect of it. So to moan about Ivo doing exactly that, is at best disingenuous, and at worst, mischievous.  Lastly, good reasoning can never be hackneyed.