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Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine writes an open letter to Messrs Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens in the Skeptic column of Scientific American. He argues that we should avoid defining ourselves as anti-religion, instead outlining what we support (presumably rationality and having the strength of character to see the world as it truly is). Quoting von Mises, Darwin, Sagan, and Luther King Jr he argues that what stands above science and religion is the freedom to think, believe, and behave what and as we wish, so long as exercising that freedom does not impinge upon the freedom of others.

Hear, hear.