Thou shalt neither condescend nor be WAY too serious and profound

The previous post was also posted to a couple of anti-theist FB pages including Holes in the Foam. I include here the response from the moderator/"owner" of the page and my response.

Holes In the Foam commented on your Wall post. Holes In the Foam wrote: "Thanks for your thoughts Bill. I too am not sure what your point was, and to be honest, it sounds rather like a condescending lecture, that may I add... is WAY too serious and profound for this page and blog. :P"

Your honesty is appreciated. I apologize if my post came across as a “condescending lecture”. There is no reason for me to consider myself superior to anyone, and when I wrote it I truly thought I was just putting out some ideas to people with whom I share at least a modicum of like-mindedness rather than speaking down to you and your other FB followers. I suppose that I was basically writing to myself to see if I could begin to clarify some ideas generated by:  a recent re-reading of Michael Shermer’s  “Why Smart People Believe Weird Things” ; listening to podcasts in which professed atheists express belief systems at least as weird as having faith in an all-knowing, all-powerful sky god; listening to the interview with the Vatican astronomer;  watching two video clips, in one of which Dawkins says “It (science) works, bitches”, and in the other Dawkins in response to a criticism  from Neil deGrasse Tyson quotes a former editor of the New Scientist as saying “…science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off”, and, last but not least, trying to understand how a surprising number of highly intelligent scientists continue to believe in some kind of god, when I, relative ignoramus that I am, find the idea verging on silly.

Yes, of course, you may add anything you like, as after all it is your sandbox. If my musings are “WAY too serious and profound” for this arena, and if I ever deign ;-) to post here again, I will try to be more appropriately flippant and shallow.