I have a question regarding tolerance and "The Little People Argument".

[rug]

1. Tolerance and condenscension are entirely different things.

Tolerance is built on respect and condescension is based on disrespect.

It's difficult for those who thrive on disrespect to appreciate the difference.

BTW, Marx's critique of religion had nothing to do with the so-called "Little People Argument". He saw it as an obstacle to proletarian progress and never for a moment thought it a blanket that the "little people" needed to cling to because it gave them comfort. He was an extremely incisive thinker not prone to the glib, shallow polemics against religion employed by the otherwise economically privileged Myers, Harris, Dawkins et al. Although I do see why this type of argument would appeal to them.