>I think you are waging an ancient battle against the wrong person!

No battle. Just my pet peeve :).

>However, in response I have a question for you: why is it wrong for religious people to claim ownership of morality

Because morality is a generally human thing. Not that I really get upset at that - any religion whose first commandment is "we shall have monopoly" is somehow supposed to extend that monopoly to the details - it's more my fear that the non-believers, being pushed away like this, being called immoral etc, may eventually become what they were told.

>when it is apparently perfectly acceptable for agnostic/atheist people to claim superior intellectualism and pragmatism, when actually they are often just as dogmatic, sloganistic and judgmental as they like to accuse religious people of being?

Nobody's perfetc.
But then, one nice thing about unbeliving is un-belonging, i.e. unbelievers are a pretty unorganized bunch, without weekly ceremonies, regular meeting places etc. So I don't have any urge to defend this whole bunch. I was guilty by association often enough, and had enough of that.

Wait a minute... you said it was acceptable? Ummmmm... :)