David Attenborough and hate mail

[naomi24]

Not really a question, just an interesting article. Any thoughts?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/ 4345830/Sir-David-Attenborough-I-get-hate-mail -telling-me-to-burn-in-hell-for-not-crediting- God.html

[chakka35]

Octavius, I honestly think you're wrong about extremist atheists on R&S.
Occasionally you get a vitriolic type - usually illiterate as well - spitting venom, but they usually limit themselves to one post and then retire.
The regular atheists are not extreme because we don't have to be. When you have reason on your side all you have to do is use argument, logic and commonsense. Wild rhetoric is unnecessary.

All I ever say about belief in itself is that it is absurd - hardly more extreme than saying that astrology or flat-earthism is absurd. I get seriously involved only when believers try to claim as fact things which are demonstrably not fact - such as the claims that God exists and that the Jesus story is historically based.

[Octavius]

Perhaps chakka, but calling me utterly dim was rude in the extreme.