Thus, like a Russian peasant throwing his sleigh-mates to the pursuing wolves to buy time, McCain has taken to tossing his fellow white males to media wolf pack. Similarly, he has denounced George W. Bush for making a standard campaign speech at Bob Jones U., an evangelical college in the fever swamps of South Carolina, on the grounds that the multitudinous Bob Joneses have said unkind things about the Vatican. Obviously, the fact that the media is attacking anybody for disrespecting the Catholic Church is so wacky that it's not funny. Roseanne can say whatever she wants about Catholicism, but she's entitled to because she's a woman, a victim of child abuse, a feminist, and possesses lots of other victimist credentials. Yet there is much to be said in favor of good honest hatred.
Religion is far more important, and thus requires even more scathing critiques.
For example, as a Catholic, I am all for harsh criticism of Catholicism, because, when my Church acquires too much unaccountable power, it starts burning dissenters at the stake. Or at least it starts keeping Irishmen from buying condoms. In contrast, when my Church is down and out, as in Communist Poland, it can do noble deeds. The solution is of course to hate the sin, not the sinner. But that requires some logical thought, objectivity, and disinterested reasoning.