You know -- all his talk about religion, and I don't see too many people really getting to the heart of the matter. The issue isn't religion, necessarily, but dogmatism. People of many stripes can be every bit as dogmatic as the most fundamentalist religious person, as when they adopt a ready made ideology and then conform to the dictates of such an ideology, they are little different than those who do so through religion.

When a libertarian sings the gospel of Lew Rockwell, when a socialist repeats every de rigueur buzz phraze of the hard left, when a neocon supporter sees wrong in Bush, or when a member of the ISM rages about imagined Israeli attrocitioes with nary a word about Palestinian, they are all engaged in the very same process. They are ALL acting on faith by accepting an entire panoply of ideas without questioning, and are simpy replicating memes rather than analyzing rationally.

Groupthink is groupthink, and so instead of just focusing on one form of groupthink, why not approach all with the same attitude? Quite frankly, I have known many, many religious people who were far more independantly minded than countless people who aren't, so I would think religion by no means has a monopoly on dogmatism.