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I see what you mean, and you're right, I think that's a problem. Unfortuantely the media generally has this binary and arbitrary idea of "balance," and so naturally the only person who could balance out a militant atheist would be a professional theist. The rest of your comment is, I think, a fair analogy. Or perhaps to tweak it a little: Hitchens (or whomever) once saw someone carrying a pineapple. He thought to himself, that potato is all spikey, it must be really unpleasant to eat. But that person is surely eating it, so they must be really dumb. It's like, he (and Dawkins before him) didn't even understand how this thing is used.Ever seen Hitchens criticized in the mainstream media by anyone other than a pastor or a bishop?