>>OTOH, please count the number of times in the history of UT when an atheist zealot trolled around spewing his views right in the middle of an unrelated thread.
It's statistically easy to show that if religion is mentioned, especially the Catholic faith, bigoted and atheistic outpourings are the norm, both here and on the wider internet. Basically if you're in a democracy and not a Catholic, what does it have to do with you? Find an article about the new Pope and check out the comments and then show me any technical or secular news that receives religious attention of that caliber.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1