I'm going to copy and paste my facebook status here, since only one regular here is friends with me and I don't want to deny everyone else the benefit of my wisdom.
Generally I'd consider myself a fairly hardline atheist, but looking at some of the Highest Rated comments on the BBC coverage of the Pope's resignation, wow.
"To old to do the job? I have to agree. I was too old to believe in fairy stories by the age of about 7."
I don't think I've ever seen such one-sided comments so up-voted. I'm proud to live in a secular nation, but they could at least be polite about it.