To:  Paul Schmelzer, Minnesoros “Independent”

From: Mitch Berg, schmuck blogger

Re:  Interview

Paul,

While I think the Mindy has become a pretty risible exercise, you are without a doubt a writer that could make it at a real publication.

Now, since you do write for a lefty propaganda shill site, I know that one of the ground rules is that you have to titter and chuckle at any traditional representation of religion (with exceptions made for lesbians declaring themselves ordained priests, Jewish supporters of Hamas and that sort of thing).

But reading this bit here, I gotta say:  interviewing PZ “Meyers” Myers about religion (with breathless, Tiger-beat-style credulity, no less; “The incident with college student Webster Cook comes as religious passions everywhere are incredibly inflamed –- Shiites and Sunnis, Evangelicals and atheists, etc. Does this say anything about the state of religion?”) is a little like interview Andy Dick about the state of method acting.

That is all.

UPDATE:  And no, Paul and PZ – the incident says nothing about the “state of religion”.  It says something about the state of atheism/agnosticism.  They’re reduced to playing “monkey in the middle” with the artifacts of ceremony. 

Pathetic.

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