Marc,

You must be very clever to know what Ivo's entire point was, and brimming with misplaced confidence to exhort anybody to "stop defending the indefensible" - at this stage I'm not even sure what I was defending, although I anticipate some hubristic enlightenment shortly. 

DM is not traditionally a place to denigrate Christianity (or any other belief), so I would be very surprised to learn that this was Ivo's mission; rather, I saw his article as a justifiable and otherwise excellent reproach to those who very publicly attributed only good deeds to God, oblivious to the effects of their ovations, instead of acknowledging the contributions made by so many people of their own free will and irrespective of their beliefs. 

Everybody is entitled to a belief system, so I was a little disappointed when Ivo, having argued so intelligently against the public outpourers, felt the need to trot out the now hackneyed Good God:Bad God dichotomy.