Surely it's reasonable to say the whining and droning after Tailhook was overblown. Then, of course, there's that stuff about JFK being killed by the military-industrial complex because Kennedy was going to pull us out of Vietnam. Of course, on the merits, that's pretty silly. But the point is, Ventura's wacky, he's kooky, he's a nut. And ordinary guys are allowed to say that religion is for the weak-minded.
Most religious people have non-religious friends.
And at some level the believers know that the non-believers think faith is a bit cozy. It's not like the bile of some of the religion haters who wrote me in defense of the Brooklyn Museum . But I don't know anybody who wouldn't want to have a beer with Jesse Ventura. The problem is the guy is the governor of Minnesota and, at least until recently, people talked about him as the next president of the United States. And you can't go around talking that way.