When a newspaper publishes a column about religion (in their Religion section) that takes into account only the Christian point of view, someone is bound to object.
When the newspaper rectifies the error by publishing an article by an atheist, then, of course, some Christianists are going to object as well.
Discussion follows - kinda basic, embryonic and naive compared to informed and sophisticated discussions we often have on atheists blogs - but a discussion nonetheless, involving local (Greensboro NC) readers of the paper.
Hat-tip: Ed Cone
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