I think there are a great many topics (libertarianism, moderate religion, socialism, …) where your assessment of the situation is spot on – but … I wonder whet

I think there are a great many topics (libertarianism, moderate religion, socialism, …) where your assessment of the situation is spot on – but … I wonder whether nice articles about beliefs which are most certainly crazy (creationism and biblical literalism, astrology, homeopathy, rapture, moon conspiracy, …) really are useful. They sometimes might be but in most cases the believers are beyond redemption. Those articles have a different purpose. Rallying the troops is a valid reason for writing such articles. (Well, and sometimes it’s just good to be able to vent about stupid things someone else did. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.)