There are plenty of instances in which an academic article provides less detail than a book resulting from the same research. In such instances, the book may be more persuasive than the article. But the book rarely turns out to be phenomenal and persuasive when the article is totally unimpressive, uninteresting, and frankly disappointing in the way that your article was and your response is. Nothing that you wrote here suggests that my assessment was wrong or that my criticisms were off target. Indeed, if I may give one example, the fact that you decided to throw in "Christian" before scholar suggests that my criticisms of your first piece were on target, and that I was right about the rhetorical game you were playing with readers in your effort to couch your own views as "secular." I appreciate your having been willing to confirm this in this way!