It is rather disappointing to see so many enlightened, open-mined, free-thinkers outright dismissing religion with nothing more than mindless vulgarity. One would think that such intelligent people would at least have the decency to challenge the ideas of those considered the intellectual giants of the faith (Thomas Aquinas or Augustine in Christianity for example). Mindlessly repeating some vulgar slur that Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris spewed (neither of whom have any background in religion, theology or philosophy) sounds more like a herd mentality than anything profound, interesting or "free-thinking".