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Here’s what I objected to

But then again, how else would you describe what those 40%  who see Trump as their Messiah – and who react to educational efforts and physical solid facts, as though they were mortal aggressive personal attacks to be counter-attacked with ruthless disregard for honesty, let alone decency and respect???

There is no poll asking if you think Trump is the Messiah, so we won’t get that data, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that estimate is off.

How would I describe them, however many there are? I wouldn’t. If someone said to me, “I know how you New Atheists think”, I’d call them on it. I do the same when someone says they know how the “faith-shackled” think. I don’t understand their thought process any better than I understand our fellow participant Xian. I do know a little about how to get someone to open up and let you know what they’re thinking. I don’t have experience at it, but I can see how people like Brian Greene present complex data about cosmology in a way that non-scientists can absorb it. I thought that was what were talking about, but we seem to have gotten off track.