"And one card is just as bigoted as the other."

I was responding to the tired, contentless objections to Hitchens' objections to religion. I would like to know what's bigoted about critiquing religion? See again my post above. Ideas that get called religions (to compound ideas with ideas) should go unquestioned but the questioning of them get labeled with the conversation (and free-exchange-of-ideas) halting label "bigot"? But anyway "and one card is just as bigoted as the other" is my argument as it is Hitchens'. How is he playing either of those cards? Is Obama a member of the church in question or not? Does he share its beliefs? Why? Or does he not? Then why be a member? And as for Obama's "race": I listen to news radio pretty much all day and that's pretty clearly an issue, and whether Obama addresses it explicitly or not you can be sure that in these times of identity politics no serious political campaign is going to look the gift horse of whatever currency it can get from such an issue in the mouth. Hitchens thinks there are better reasons to be elected president. Don't you?