Both Washington Monthly and Yglesias have linked to this deadly stupid opinion piece by Klinghoffer. It's basically arguing that everything is religious, from the Atkins Diet to global warming, and that the name of that religion is secular humanism. And secular humanism is "an aggressive religion competing for converts, a faith lacking the candor to speak openly of its aims," with the goal of crushing the Judeo-Christian faiths.

Sorry, Mr Klinghoffer, but we secular humanists don't even consider those Abrahamic religions to be on the radar of our world-wide aspirations. Right now, we're locked in a battle to the death with the religion of Innie vs. Outie Bellybuttons, and after we finish them off, we plan to move on to fighting the Bed, Bath, and Beyond faith. That should leave us sharpened to a knife edge for combat with a real, major religion: the Trekkies. That one may make us break a sweat, but we shall eventually prevail, since they have been weakened by factional struggles.

But Jews and Christians? Pfah. Weenies. What challenge is there in mindless weasels who fall for this kind of BS?

There is a secular creation account—evolution through random mutation and natural selection, a just-so story increasingly challenged by scientists. A few years ago the Discovery Institute, a Seattle think tank, took out advertisements in the New York Review of Books and the New Republic listing a hundred distinguished Darwin-doubting scholars, at institutions from Berkeley to MIT.

Ooooh. They bought ads in newspapers and magazines. How freaking scholarly. Ranks 'em right up there with Calvin Klein and the press agents for Dumb and Dumberer in the intellectual pantheon.