Thanks for writing a poignant essay with a voice of reasonable reason.

Thanks for writing a poignant essay with a voice of reasonable reason. I shall add “social justice warrior” to my list of other names for

“nice people”: Bertrand Russell
“regressive left”: Maajid Nawazand
“doxastically closed”: Peter Boghossian.

nice people: http://openpolitics.ca/On+Nice+People
regressive left: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_left
doxastic closure: http://ffrf.org/faq/feeds/item/16754-think-what-would-make-you-into-a-believer

The chief characteristic of nice people is the laudable practice of improvement upon reality. God made the world, but nice people feel that they could have done the job better…They endeavor to insure also that as little as possible shall be known on the subject in a decent way; they try to get the censor to forbid books and plays which represent the matter otherwise than as an occasion for sniggering nastiness; in this they are successful wherever and in so far as they control the laws and the police…

Originally written 1931, republished in _Why I am not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects_, by Bertrand Russell George Allen & Unwin LTD., 1957 pp. 152–153