I am so glad I don’t have to do the work that others are doing for me.  Over at The Daily Kos, blogger “Erratic Synapse” takes on Chris Mooney’s accommodationism.  A sample:

. . . The whole notion that religion is a private matter is horseshit. It has always been horseshit. If religion were a private matter that didn’t enter the political arena, we wouldn’t be debating a wide variety of topics such as gay marriage, abortion, embryonic stem cell research, teaching the theory of evolution in public school science classrooms, etc. The dominant religion in the United States, Christianity, was never designed for the purpose of respecting religious freedom, which is why it incurs so much in so many areas. It is fantastic that religious moderates have respected religious freedom and church-state separation, but I see that more a consequence of their adoption of social liberalism as a political philosophy (though some will justify this position with, perhaps, the teachings of Jesus, but then claim that religious freedom is a tenet supported by the Bible in general). .

. . . we’re the ones who need an exercise in “humility?” The fact that we’re willing to have reasonable and rational discussion on the subject of God makes us arrogant? We’re the ones who are arrogant when contrasted with religious moderates such as Kenneth Miller and Karl Giberson, who declare that there are limits to what they’ll allow science to speak on when it comes to their personal faith?