A perfectly valid point. My apologies.
One poster (name not recalled) simply decided to engage in a childish game of "I got the last word in!" (granted, this would stop if I would stop participating so I also share the blame here).
For what it's worth, libertarians and atheists/agnostics are not the only persons who do this. Just a week or so ago a couple of Fundamentalist Protestant chr*stians did the same thing, continually responding to my requests for proof of their beliefs with an almost celebratory fideism--and they absolutely refused to stop! They were compelled to merely post over and over that "I know I'm right!" Just please be aware that this attitude is a foible of common humanity and is not limited to Fundamentalist Protestants, chr*stians (I am not a chr*stian), or even religious people in general. Even "rationalists" can do it.
Now, to change the subject and hopefully put an end to the little game of dozens we've got going on here, let me say something that it is just possible you and I might agree on. On another thread about Rosie O'Donnell I made the point that Western leftists who look on America's native Heartland Fundamentalists as subhuman monsters even when they do nothing but simply believe what they do will look the other way, excuse, apologize for, and defend the most heineous acts if it is committed by a member of a group which they arbitrarily define as "the other." Even if you share Ms. O'Donnell's lack of religious beliefs I trust you are disgusted not only by her economic beliefs but by her blatant hypocrisy on this subject.
May we, on this one tiny issue and this alone, at least agree that we have something in common and bid one another good night?
I hope you sleep well. It's been a hell of a last couple of days.
Let me take a wild guess:
You are some professor of something, and think you are the professor of everything.
So are you some PhD, or not? Yes or no?