In this forum at the official Richard Dawkins website, the professor himself has flatly denied recent reports of his being seen in Catholic Churches in Oxford. He says: "I do occasionally go into Oxford churches for funerals and weddings. But these are nearly always, of course, Anglican churches. I don't think I've been in a Roman Catholic church (it happened to be St Aloysius) since a funeral in 1999"
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Would that have been the funeral of his late wife (RIP)?
Poor man, obviously struggling with himself ;-)
It take this to indicate that Professor Dawkins sees little risk of being infected by religion at an Anglican service.
What a curious website!
I've yet to come across a Catholic site/blog that so insults atheists as Professor D's does Christians, with its gratuitous remarks about people of faith.
Despite what atheists say, compassion must be the preserve of the godly.
I wonder if he'll be 'oh-so-smug-of-course-God-doesn't-exist' on his death bed!
I'll bet dollars to doughnuts the man eventually converts.
Methinks the prof doth protest too much.
philip says ...'what a curious website'.. referring to Dawkins's rather disjointed rantings about ...well, nothing really!
He calls people of Faith - Faith-Heads. OK, that's fine by me. I would class him and his 'followers' as Pin-Heads, meaning small minded people incapable of seeing beyond their own noses.
It would seem dee-nile is not just a river in Egypt.
Karen
Philip has a point as I sense this website emits a certain self-righteous anger.
It's one thing to call the end of the liberal project (fair enough) but the ethos here is slightly peculiar in itself. Matching Professor Dawkins or (the Tablet) insult for insult will, I suspect, achieve very little.
Dawkins is a potential boon for Christianity in so much his arguments can be repelled logically by someone with only a rudimentary knowledge of the Faith.
In simile modo, the Tablet (with its ageing journalists) should be teased rather than aggressively mocked.
Here they seem to want blood.
Dawkins doesn't believe in God. I don't believe in Dawkins.
Maybe the Good Friday prayer for Atheists is about to be answered in a big way.
Fr. Tim,
Dawkins (like Hitchens) is a "Pauline" character. He might convert if we leave him well alone. But he won't out of sheer bloody-mindedness if believers keep monitoring his possible moves in the direction of God.
With regards to the comment from Otis, I would say that this blog emits a certain amount of righteous anger rather than self-righteous anger. If you want to compare examples of one with the other, read "The God Delusion."
I suggested that Dawkins could be repelled logically by someone with only a rudimentary knowledge of the Faith. This level of unoriginal insult would not stand up in court.
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