reJoinder:

...who actually make me more sympathetic to Hitchens' position on faith. If he's polemical, at least he's not as idiotically credulous as the more superstitious Papists.

A pox on both dogmatic atheists and religionists, of the papist kind or otherwise. Both sides come down to: believe what I believe or be damned as a fool, a lunatic, or a genocidal maniac. The small mindedness of proselytising atheists and religionists is simply breathtaking.