I’ve been reading the Daily opinion page for nearly four years now, and enjoyed watching the banter for quite some time.

I’ve noticed the trend of criticism and defense of religions, almost always against Christianity. I’ve always perused them and like to think I’ve thought critically about their arguments, weighed them against my own findings and drawn conclusions based on experience, truth, facts and logic, to the best of my human ability.

But Mr. Walker’s Tuesday article finally broke my proverbial camel’s back. His “argument” was non-existent. I’ve seen a number of articles soaked in arrogance before, but this one was soaked, washed, rinsed and repeated in a double cycle of arrogance.

For anyone to write something so condescending and rude, with nothing to back it up but a simple sharing of their own opinion is pure narcissism. It’s the equivalent of me telling my friend, “You’re wrong, and I’m right, because you’re wrong and I’m smarter than you.”

Not a lot of intellectual material there, Mr. Walker.

Mr. Walker was so concerned about looking the part of an intellectual as he wrote his article, that he forgot to make it worth reading. All I drew from it was that he’s ardently against any belief in the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, and apparently doesn’t quite care for geologists who do, or even classically trained rednecks. And that’s really a shame.

He presented no clear evidence to make his point that the resurrection never occurred; had he, I may have enjoyed reading it. It’s almost as if he got mad at the previous article, wrote up a scathing response, realized there was no content and proceeded to his word-of-the-day toilet paper roll to add some “academic quality” to his outburst.

For anyone who actually wants to start considering common arguments against, and evidence for, the Resurrection, I would turn your attention to “The Case for Easter,” a short book by former Chicago Tribune journalist Lee Strobel.

Strobel is a former atheist, who after months of research and interviews in search of proof that Jesus didn’t resurrect, led himself to the best logical conclusion that Jesus, in fact, did rise from death. The book itself is a cliff-notes version of his actual book, “The Case for Christ,” and his evidence is laid out clearly, with expert testimony from guys with more degrees than Fahrenheit.

It’s worth considering, regardless of your stance on the resurrection. It’s really cheap, less than $5 new on Amazon, and what’s better, it’s really short; it only took me an hour to read it, and I’m not even a lecturer in intensive English.

Mr. Walker, I plead with you, if you’re going to put your name and title on an article, please oh please oh please, make it worth my while to read it. I understand you’re passionate about your cause, but for the love of all that is academic, please add some quality to your ranting.

And I really hope you change your mind about rednecks, because some of us really do enjoy some Mozart or Tchaikovsky in between our moon-shining and tractor-racing.