Must not mock atheists?

"My favourite moment of the show was cartoonist Martin Rowson recounting the fuss made by atheists when he lampooned Richard Dawkins in a cartoon for New Humanist magazine. After many abusive emails he attended a meeting of humanists and explained that he was making fun of Dawkins but wasn't suggesting the scientist was gay:

"After the meeting one of the atheists came to me and said "You mustn't mock Dawkins, he's the only saint we've got.

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An atheist "saint"?

Posted by John Ray.