Ophelia Benson has posted a reasoned and passionate article on Toleration, from a refreshingly feminist viewpoint, responding to an appallingly weak-kneed godly-coddling crypto-misogynistic article in the pommy rag: “The Telegraph”.

Read Ophelia’s short peice here…

The comment thread that follows is of particular interest, fairly reasoned and humanistic up until Mr. Blackford’s puzzling comment.

You’ll need to navigate to Ophelia’s article (above), and left click on the Comments hyperlink.
It is a strange commenting system where the comments window is a sort of ‘pop-up’.

If you are interested, read the comments, esp Russell’s and my curt response to his worst points, which appear to wilfully  ignore the plight of trapped theists, especially women. He even obliquely suggests that their plight of subjection and nominal slavery is their own fault, for not leaving their abusive religion and starting their own!

Tell me if you agree or not.

As Mr. Blackford is slated as a speaker at the Global Atheist Convention, 2010 in Melbourne, it is as well to get his position on religion quite straight before-hand.

I have previously criticised Russell for his ‘faithest’ stance on an interview that he did in the past, and did not recieve what I considered to be a satisfactory response.