Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins reads his "good fundamentalist christian fan mail"

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Those "Christians" were calling him gay

because they thought that was the worst insult that they could throw at him. Probably because of their personal opinions.

The Freemason insult was just bizarre. You do not have to profess a belief in "god", but in a "higher power". Dawkins would not have professed to that either.

As to the "in-your-face atheists" opposed to the "atheist freethinker", I think that we need both. There is a place for both. Without the outspoken atheists, we would still be hiding in closets afraid to speak out and thinking that we are alone. I cannot say that I agree with all the things done or said in the name of atheism, but I am grateful that they can do/say it.