So last week the redoubtable Charlotte Allen writes a humorous piece in which she points out the obvious to people who do not suffer from the personality disorders and relational difficulties found in such abundance among the Brights: namely, the New Atheists are crashing bores and johnny one notes<\/a>. The piece was actually rather light-hearted and in no way is describable as a \u201cfurious broadside\u201d. But to the impure, all things are impure I suppose. And since P.Z. Myers\u2019 every word about things religious *is* a furious broadside, not infrequently concluding with a farrago of profanity, damnations, execration, and desecration, I suppose he thinks everybody to be like him.<\/p>\n Still, he could have simply called Allen a doodyhead and been done with it. But no. Instead, due to his phenomenal intelligence and Bright superiority over the common herd, he had to go and write<\/a>:<\/p>\n Charlotte Allen is very, very angry with us atheists \u2014 that\u2019s the only conclusion that can be drawn from her furious broadside in The Times on May 17. She can\u2019t stand us; we\u2019re unpopular; we\u2019re a problem. What, exactly, is the greatest crime of modern atheists?<\/p>\n We\u2019re boring<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Um, no. For so many reasons. For starters, Allen is not \u201cvery, very angry\u201d\u2013unless you take eye-rolling as a sign of the Apocalypse. Nor is Allen\u2019s thesis that dullness is the greatest crime of modern atheists. The tedium and monomaniacal dullness of atheists is merely the facet of the New Atheist phenom she chooses to point out, in contradistinction to their tedious claim of being exciting.<\/p>\n But, dude, since you asked what the \u201cgreatest crime of modern atheists\u201d is, you might start by at least noticing the impressive slaughters of Stalin<\/a>, Mao<\/a>, and Pol Pot<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brights are all about empirical evidence, Mr. Myers. What empirical evidence have you given that you are bright as you ply your trade in diatribes out there in the chem lab at Frostbite Falls Community College?<\/p>\n