To be fair, I don't really think getting laughed at counts as legitimate persecution, especially when the same article says they are laughing at the rest of us... "believers invite fellow adherents to open discussions in which the like-minded confirm one another’s hunches and laugh at the folly of those still stuck in the Enlightenment." I'm not advocating meanness and name-calling, but if they're dishing it out, they better be prepared to take it.