Fondle A Fundie

Nick Pistof, the Evangelical Avenger, writes:

And in polite society, conservative Christians -- especially Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses -- are among the last groups it's still acceptable to mock.

Could someone remind Nick that many of his maltreated evangelicals don't think that Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians. Now that's tolerance!

We also suspect that no research was committed in the preparation of this sentence:

But on many campuses, it's easier to find people who can discuss the Upanishads than the "Left Behind" books about Jesus' Second Coming — which, with more than 40 million copies, are the best-selling American novels of our age.

Pisty's column is full of such unsubstantiated assertions -- Exactly which campuses are those? Exactly which "polls show that evangelical Christians are more likely to contribute to charities that help the needy?" (And more likely than who?) I guess I'm too impolite to get invited to the elite Jehovah's Witness-bashing parties that are all the rage.

Kristof concludes, "It's always easy to point out the intolerance of others. Why, this column took me less than 20 minutes to write."