He was trying to say, leading from the preceding sentence: "[For dogmatic people] there's no distinction between [acclaimed artist/thinker] and [Bible-thumper/

He was trying to say, leading from the preceding sentence: "[For dogmatic people] there's no distinction between [acclaimed artist/thinker] and [Bible-thumper/wanker]. [but there is for me]" You might have the causation exactly backwards for friends. I've heard of cases where the causation is backwards for geography too (Mormons move to Utah, evangelicals move to Colorado, Muslims move to Dearborn). In general, sure, faiths are correlated with original geography and race and class and what have you. That isn't, however, a well-formed argument against their ultimate truth or untruth. It might be a well-formed argument about how they spread.