It’s time to stop the assumption that anyone who believes differently from you is an “unwashed ignorant fool.”

I’ve actually read the book, did you miss the part where he actively encourages the reincarnation research of Ian Stevenson, and describes James Randi as an angry little man who is impossible to take seriously?

Sagan was a skeptic, but he, unlike many modern skeptics, meant that he should be skeptical of things stated as fact without evidence not that anything contradicting his world view was idiocy.