My husband informs me that even here in cyberspace he receives a plethora through the ether of what he calls ‘hate messages’, deriding him and like minded scientists or non-believers for their heretical views. Some of these messages are quite vitriolic and threatening in their tone. I have not encountered similar such hostile tirades going in the other direction from those who do not accept religious beliefs. I do not accept all Charles’s views myself, but it seems paradoxical to me that so-called followers of Christ can apparently be so much more aggressive than are agnostics.