Dennis Prager recently had an online debate about the existence of God with a prominent atheist named Sam Harris. Although not likely to change many minds either way, the debate is interesting. What annoyed me was the way that Mr. Harris made a particular point of demeaning the faith of member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, or at least he denigrated an uniformed and warped view of what Latter-day Saints believe. Maybe I'm just overly sensitive to this, but it seems like Latter-day Saints have recently been at the receiving end of an increasing amount of undeserved criticism lately. Christopher Hitchens made some really rude and uncalled for comments about Latter-day Saints on the Hugh Hewitt show. When pressed by Hugh, Mr. Hitchens made a lame attempt to paint all Christians with the same brush, but it was clear that he has a particular beef with Latter-day Saints. Also, Article6blog has recently been covering Andrew Sullivan's mockery of Latter-day Saint beliefs and practices. It is possible that these attacks are all prelude to Mitt Romney's potential run for President on 2008. Hopefully people will think about the Latter-day Saints that they know and recognize this trash-talk for what it is.