First, on the matter of nationalism: I see your point in how you are using the literal academic definition of the word, whereas I'm using a sociological extrapolation of the word. I do believe you are letting people off the hook with their emotional anti-Americanism and their inflated sense of their own national pride (which, yes, I define as a form of "nationalism")...but I'm under no delusions that I'll be able to persuade you otherwise, and we seem to be operating with different definitions from the onset.

In my original couple of replies to your piece, I'd made several other constructive criticisms not related to nationalism per se (such as how you appear to be treating atheism as an undisputable fact rather than a personal belief system). If you want, I can go back and summarize the points I was trying to make that don't explicitly deal with nationalism.