Maybe I'm being unfair, but I'm perfectly content to live in a world where people experience an intellectual and social disadvantage for believing in nonsense.
"I'm perfectly content to live in a world where people experience an intellectual and social disadvantage for believing in nonsense."
I truly believe that you'll get to experience that world someday. However, you needn't wait. There are several countries today that kill and shame those who don't think like them. Go try one of them and report your success.
You have admitted that you didn't even know the meaning of the sentence that you have been defending until I posted the meaning of the word 'benighted', while criticizing those who were upset by it for holding faith based positions?
No, but if you post a dictionary definition of a word and someone's next reply contains an aside that they learned the definition of a new word today, from context it usually means they learned it there and then.
As for the article, without knowing the definition of 'benighted', there are several different meanings available.
For example, say it meant 'dedicated'. That would fit perfectly, but the phrase would then have a different meaning of one who believes completely, rather than someone who is a fool for believing.
I truly believe that you'll get to experience that world someday. However, you needn't wait. There are several countries today that kill and shame those who don't think like them. Go try one of them and report your success.