Why the hell do I still read the Guardian? For fuck’s sake, Hobson had a shocking snipe at Hitchens – “as for the evil of ’sexual repression’, well, maybe some day all men will be as liberated as Hitch, who left his first wife while she was pregnant” – cut by an editor, and he pops up in the comments to announce the censorship! He’s actually proud of the gag and wants to make sure we can all share the hilarity. The rest of the article is a spin on the usual Einsteinian God crap, with comments like “there is surely something religious in the communal ecstasy of a rave, or a pop concert, or a play, or a sporting event, or a political rally“, wrapped up with the standard “it’s more complex than you think, idiots” assertion.

And don’t get me started on that bilge by Rahman. If religious belief is an evolutionary phenomenon, then Richard Dawkins doesn’t stand a chance of beating it, he says. Evolution giveth and taketh away he says, no doubt thinking he’s ever so clever. Rahman, mate, The Extended Phenotype was published in 1982 and has a great chapter on the myth of genetic determinism. And Unweaving The Rainbow might help you with the “dismal world” painted by atheists (sorry, antitheists – makes us sound more aggressive).

*stalks off muttering about where they can shove their Berliner*