Is this really what @pzmyers wants?

Organizing atheists is like herding lions, or at least ideally it should be. What we want is a community of fiercely independent, roaring, wrestling, arguing, fighting freethinkers; cross them, and you will get rhetorically mauled, and our battles are not about polite batting about with little kitty paws at issues, but should involve claws and fangs and uncompromising forcefulness. Everyone who is complaining that the harshness of the debate degrades the discourse, get stuffed; I think the call to weaken the vigor of the disagreement is the real degradation here.

So, should the entire atheist and skeptic communities turn into Fox News? That whenever we have a disagreement we rip into each other like some kind of imitation of Fox News pundits tearing at each other's throats? Throwing around barbed insults instead of openly and honestly sharing our concerns and criticisms? Good lord. Chris Mooney was right.